and, like the idealist philosopher whose body takes account of the external world in the reality of which his intellect declines to believe, the same self which had made me salute her before I had identified her now urged me to catch the ball that she tossed to me (as though she had been a companion, with whom I had come to play, and not a sister-soul with whom my soul had come to be united), made me, out of politeness, until the time came when she had to I go, address a thousand polite and trivial remarks to her, and so prevented me both from keeping a silence in which I might at last have laid my hand upon the indispensable, escaped idea, and from uttering the words which might have made that definite progress in the course of our love on which I was always obliged to count only for the following afternoon.
eta, filosofo idealistaren antzera, zeinaren gorputzak aintzat hartzen baitu kanpoko munduaren errealitatea nahiz eta beraren adimenak hura sinetsi ez, halaxe, bera identifikatu aurretik ere Gilberte agurtzera eramana ninduèn ni berberak lehiaz gogotsu harrarazten zidan hark jaurtiriko baloia (jaurti ere, berarekin jolastera etorria nintzèn kamarada bat bainintzan, eta ez berarekin bat egitera etorria nintzèn arima biki bat), eta ni berberak gizabidez esanarazten neskatoari, beronek handik alde egin arte, mila esaldi atsegin bezain hutsal, eta ni berberak eragozten niri, beraz, nahiz isilik egotea-isilaldian barrena soilik ahal izango bainukeen, azkenik, irudi hertsakor eta aienatu haren gainean eskua berriro ezarri-, nahiz esan beharreko hitzak esatea-hitzok ez bestek aitzinaraz baitzezaketen erabakimenez gure amodioa, aurrerapenok behin eta berriro geroko gerotan luzarazi gabe, biharamuneko arratsaldera arte beti-.