with the warmth that he felt in his own palm he modelled the hollow of a strange hand which he thought that he was clasping, and out of feelings and impressions of which he was not yet conscious, he brought about sudden vicissitudes which, by a chain of logical sequences, would produce, at definite points in his dream, the person required to receive his love or to startle him awake.
bere esku ahurrean sentitzen zuèn berotasunarekin esku arrotz baten sakonunea modelatzen zuen, eta hura tinkatzen ari zela zeritzon, eta, oraindik beraien kontzientziarik ez zeukàn sentimendu eta inpresioetatik nolabaiteko peripeziak sorrarazten zituen, berauek, kateamendu logikoren baten ondorioz, puntu jakin bateraino ekarriko zutelarik, Swannen loaldian, pertsonaia jakin bat, Swannen amodioa jasotzeko edo Swannen iratzarpena eragiteko behar-beharrezkoa.