And the thought that, if he were seized by a sudden illness and confined to the house, the people whom his valet would instinctively run to find would be the Duc de Chartres, the Prince de Reuss, the Duc de Luxembourg and the Baron de Charlus, brought him the same consolation as our old Françoise derived from the knowledge that she would, one day, be buried in her own fine clothes, marked with her name, not darned at all (or so exquisitely darned that it merely enhanced one's idea of the skill and patience of the seamstress), a shroud from the constant image of which in her mind's eye she drew a certain satisfactory sense, if not actually of wealth and prosperity, at any rate of self-esteem.
bera, Odetterentzat, ez beharbada gutxiago maitea, baina bai gutxiago ikusi-nahia zela, beste edonor baino, Verdurintarren leial gogaikarri haietako edozein baino,... nor eta bera, harremanak zituena mundu batekin zeinak, bera, gizon bikain apartatzat baitzuen, zeinak, etengabe, ahaleginak egiten baitzituen, bera, erakartzeko, zeinak, bera, ez ikustea deitoratu egiten baitzuen...