As she stood there beside him, brushing his cheek with the loosened tresses of her hair, bending one knee in what was almost a dancer's pose, so that she could lean without tiring herself over the picture, at which she was gazing, with bended head, out of those great eyes, which seemed so weary and so sullen when there was nothing to animate her, Swann was struck by her resemblance to the figure of Zipporah, Jethro's Daughter, which is to be seen in one of the Sistine frescoes.
Swannen ondoan zutik, masailetan behera ile-adats laxatuak zerizkiola, zango bata jarrera ia dantzarian tolesturik behatzen ari zèn grabaturantz nekerik gabe makurtu ahal izateko, burua ere makur, begiak, aldarte oneko ez zegoenean hain akituak eta zapuztiak izan ohi zituèn begi handi haiek, zabalik zabal: harrigarria iruditu zitzaion Swanni, une hartan, Odettek Kapera Sixtinako fresko batean ikusten den Jethroren alaba Zeforaren irudiarekin zeukàn antzekotasuna.