Although a far younger man, M. Swann was very much attached to my grandfather, who had been an intimate friend, in his time, of Swann's father, an excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.
Swann jauna adiskide min zuen gure aitonak, bera baino askoz ere gazteagoa izan arren, haren aita izana baitzuen garai batean adiskideetan adiskideenetarik: gizon bikaina baina bitxia omen zen, huskeria bat aski izan ohi zuena, dirudienez, bere bihotzaren oldarrak eteteko, bere pentsamenduaren norabidea aldatzeko.