For many years, albeit-and especially before his marriage-M. Swann the younger came often to see them at Combray, my great-aunt and grandparents never suspected that he had entirely ceased to live in the kind of society which his family had frequented, or that, under the sort of incognito which the name of Swann gave him among us, they were harbouring-with the complete innocence of a family of honest innkeepers who have in their midst some distinguished highwayman and never know it-one of the smartest members of the Jockey Club, a particular friend of the Comte de Paris and of the Prince of Wales, and one of the men most sought after in the aristocratic world of the Faubourg Saint-Germain.
Urregorrizko bihotza zuen eta!" Hainbat urtetan barrena, Swann semea, batik bat ezkondu aurretik, Combrayn haiek ikustera sarri etortzen zen arren, ez zuten izeba-amonak eta aitona-amonek batere susmorik izan ezen hura ez zebilela jadanik haren familia ibili izana zèn gizarte-giro berean, eta, Swann izen hark gurean ematen ziòn incognito itxura haren pean, zinez atosten ari zirela-beren etxean bidelapur ospetsu bat aterpetzen ari zirela ez zekiketèn ostalari ondradu batzuen inozentzia erabatekoarekin-Jockey-Clubeko kiderik dotoreenetariko bat, Parisko Kondearen eta Galesko Printzearen lagun minenetariko bat, Saint-Germain aldiriko gizarte goreneko gizonik mokofinenetariko bat.