And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, scandalous senescence, meet only in a celibate, in one of that class for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for such a one it is void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among his offspring.
Eta nire gurasoak, bestalde, hasiak ziren harengan ezkongabeen zahardade anormal, neurriz gaineko, lotsagarri eta aldi berean merezimenduzko hori sumatzen, biharamunik gabeko egun luzea besteentzat baino luzeagoa dela dirudiena, halakoentzat egun bakoitza hutsa baita, uneak bata bestearen ondotik goizetik arratsera arte pilatzen zaizkiena ezein seme-alabarekin partekatu beharrik ez-eta.