For at such times desire, or love itself, would revive in him a feeling of vanity from which he was now quite free in his everyday life, although it was, no doubt, the same feeling which had originally prompted him towards that career as a man of fashion in which he had squandered his intellectual gifts upon frivolous amusements, and had made use of his erudition in matters of art only to advise society ladies what pictures to buy and how to decorate their houses;
Zeren desirak edo amodioak banitate-sentimendu bat itzultzen baitzion orduan, ohiko bizitzan galdua zeukana (nahiz eta berau izan, inondik ere, behinola, karrera munduzale hartara bideratua zuena, bere izpirituaren dohainak plazer txolinetan eta bere arte-jakinduria goi-gizarteko damen zerbitzura koadroak erosi eta haien egoitzetarako ostilamendua aukeratzeko aholkutan xahuaraziz), eta, hartaz liluratua zèn edozein emakume ezezagunen begietara, Swann izen hutsari berez ez zeriòn dotoretasun batez distiratzeko irrika sortarazten ziòn banitatea.