But-and this more than ever from the day on which fine weather definitely set in at Combray-the proud hour °f noon, descending from the steeple of Saint-Hilaire which it blazoned for a moment with the twelve points of its sonorous crown, would long have echoed about our table, beside the 'holy bread,' which too had come in, after church, in its familiar way;
Baina (eguraldi ederra Combray osoaz jaun eta jabetzen zèn sasoitik aurrera batez ere) luzaroan gelditu ohi ginen hantxe, eguerdi-eguerdiko ordu harroxkoa, Saint-Hilaireko dorrea bere koroaren hamabi lore-ukaldi ozenez armarriztatu ondoren, gure mahai ingurura jaitsi eta gerora ere, ogi bedeinkatuaren ondoan-bera ere famili girora elizatik gurera etorria-, hantxe, Mila eta Bat Gauetako plateren aurrean, beroak eta batez ere oturuntzak astundurik.