and Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame merely a reason for treating him with a friendly benevolence, the outward signs of which serve to enhance and gratify the self-esteem of the bestower because he feels that they are all the more precious to him upon whom they are bestowed, conversed at great length with M. Vinteuil, with whom for a long time he had been barely on speaking terms, and invited him, before leaving us, to send his daughter over, one day, to play at Tansonville.
orduan Swannek, mundu-gizon petoa izaki, bere aurreiritzi moral guztien lurmentzeaz jakitun, inoren ahalkeizunean bere onginahia erakusteko parada besterik ikusten ez duen karitate harro hori erakutsiz, zeinaren adierazpenak hainbatenaz baitzaizkio kilikagarriago ematen dituenaren handiusteari, zenbatenaz iruditzen zaizkion baliotsuago jasotzen dituenari, luzaroan jardun zuen berriketan Vinteuil jaunarekin, ordura arte inoiz berari hitzik zuzendu gabea izan arren, eta eskatu ere eskatu zion, gu kitatu baino lehentxeago, arren igor zezala egunen batean bere alaba Tansonvillera kontzerturen bat ematera.