To live in, Combray was a trifle depressing, like its streets, whose houses, built of the blackened stone of the country, fronted with outside steps, capped with gables which projected long shadows downwards, were so dark that one had, as soon as the sun began to go down, to draw back the curtains in the sitting-room windows;
Bertan bizitzeko, goibel samarra zen Combray, hango kaleak bezalatsu, etxeak, izan ere, eskualdeko harri belzkaraz eraikiak, kanpo aldetik harmailazko ataridunak, itzala beren aurrerantz luzarazten zutèn hormapikoez kapeluztatuak, hain baitziren ilunpetsuak non, eguna arrasten hasi orduko, errezelak altxatu behar izaten baitziren "saletan";