M. Verdurin had been wiser than he knew in not taking his pipe out of his mouth, for Cottard, having occasion to leave the room for a moment, murmured a witty euphemism which he had recently acquired and repeated now whenever he had to go to the place in question: "I must just go and see the Duc d'Aumale for a minute," so drolly, that M. Verdurin's cough began all over again.
Asmatu ere bai Verdurin jaunak pipa bere aho-ertzetik ez kendurik, zeren Cottardek, "ereti batez norabaiteko beharrizana" omen zuela-eta, erdi ahapeka egin baitzuen orduantxe beste txantxa-zirto bat, arestian ikasi berria, eta bakartoki berera joan behar zuèn aldiro errepikatu ohi zuena: