But he, to whom, up till then, nothing could have seemed so tedious as was all that pertained to the cosmopolitan life of Baden or of Nice, now that he learned that Odette had, perhaps, led a 'gay' life once in those pleasure-cities, although he could never find out whether it had been solely to satisfy a want of money which, thanks to himself, she no longer felt, or from some capricious instinct which might, at any moment, revive in her, he would lean, in impotent anguish, blinded and dizzy, over the bottomless abyss into which had passed, in which had been engulfed those years of his own, early in MacMahon's Septennat, in which one spent the winter on the Promenade des Anglais, the summer beneath the limes of Baden, and would find in those years a sad but splendid profundity, such as a poet might have lent to them;
Baina horra, Swann, zeinari ordura arte ezer ez baitzitzaiokeen gogaikarriago irudituko Baden-Badengo edo Nizako bizimodu kosmopolitarekin zerikusirik ukan zezaketèn maiseaketak baino, jakinaren gainean zegoenez geroztik, ordea, ezen Odette beharbada festarik festa ibilia zela noizbait atsegin-hiri haietan, nahiz eta bera, Swann, inoiz iritsiko ez ibilera haien zergatiaren jakitun izatera-diru-premiei erantzuteko baldin bazen, orain ez zuen halakorik haboro, berari, Swanni, esker, baina bestelako apetei men egitearren baldin bazen, haiek noiznahi berpiz zitezkeen-, horra beraz orain, larritasun ezinago ahalgabez, ezinago itsuz eta ezinago zorabiatuz makurtzen zela Swann amildegi hondogabe hari beha, zeinean hurrupatuak baitziren Septennat-eko hasierako urte haiek, negua Ingelesen Pasealekuan eta uda Baden-Badengo ezkien gerizpean iragaten zirenekoak, zeinei, sumatu ere, sakontasun oinazetsu bezain jaukala sumatzen baitzien Swannek, poeta batek igarriko ziekeenaren antzekoa;