-carrying in its wake, I could feel, the knowledge, the impression of her to whom it was addressed that belonged not to me but to the friend who called to her, everything that, while she uttered the words, she more or less vividly reviewed, possessed in her memory, of their daily intimacy, of the visits that they paid to each other, of that unknown existence which was all the more inaccessible, all the more painful to me from being, conversely, so familiar, so tractable to this happy girl who let her message brush past me without my being able to penetrate its surface, who flung it on the air with a light-hearted cry: letting float in the atmosphere the delicious attar which that message had distilled, by touching them with precision, from certain invisible points in Mlle. Swann's life, from the evening to come, as it would be, after dinner, at her home,-forming, on its celestial passage through the midst of the children and their nursemaids, a little cloud, exquisitely coloured, like the cloud that, curling over one of Poussin's gardens, reflects minutely, like a cloud in the opera, teeming with chariots and horses, some apparition of the life of the gods;
nire aldamenetik igaro zen, beraz, ekinean-esan dezagun-, jaurtiketaren kurbak eta helburuaren hurbilak azkarturiko indar betean; -izen bat, bere baitan garraio zeramana, ondotxo nekien, zuzendua zitzaionaren ezagutza, harekiko hurbiltasuna, ezagutza bat, ez nirea, baizik eta izen hori esan berri zuenarena, hura ahoskatzen ari zèn bitartean, beste neskatxa hark berrikusten zuèn guztia, edo gutxienez oroimenean gorderik zeukana, haien eguneroko intimitatearen zertzeladak, haien elkarrenganako bisiten xehetasunak, hots, niretzat hain guztiz ezezagun, eskuraezin eta mingarri izan arren, beste neskatxa harentzat, ordea, ni doi-doi ukitua ninduèn eta bertan sartzeko bidea ukatua zidàn izen oihukatu hartan bildurik, hain familiar eta hain eskurakoi zena; -izen bat, jadanik airean barreiatzen ari zena jaregina zuèn lurrin zoragarria, zehazki ukituak zituenez Swann andereñoaren bizitzako zenbait puntu ikusezin: arrats hartan bertan, haren etxera joatekoa zela, afalondoan;