But for a man of M. Vinteuil's sensibility it must have been far more painful than for a hardened man of the world to have to resign himself to one of those situations which are wrongly supposed to occur in Bohemian circles only; for they are produced whenever there needs to establish itself in the security necessary to its development a vice which Nature herself has planted in the soul of a child, perhaps by no more than blending the virtues of its father and mother, as she might blend the colours of their eyes.
Baina Vinteuil jauna bezalako gizon bati, beste edonori baino oinaze handiagoa ekarri behar zion, ezinbestean, uste okerrez bohemiaren ondare esklusiboa direla uste izaten den egoera horietako batera etsi beharra izateak: