As though the musicians were not nearly so much playing the little phrase as performing the rites on which it insisted before it would consent to appear, as proceeding to utter the incantations necessary to procure, and to prolong for a few moments, the miracle of its apparition, Swann, who was no more able now to see it than if it had belonged to a world of ultra-violet light, who experienced something like the refreshing sense of a metamorphosis in the momentary blindness with which he had been struck as he approached it, Swann felt that it was present, like a protective goddess, a confidant of his love, who, so as to be able to come to him through the crowd, and to draw him aside to speak to him, had disguised herself in this sweeping cloak of sound.
Bazirudien ezen musikariak, pasartetxoa interpretatzen baino areago, berau ager zedin beharrezkoak zirèn errituak egikaritzen ari zirela, beronen etorreraren miraria erdiesteko eta iraunarazteko ezinbestekoak zirèn araoak araokatzen ari zirela, eta bitartean Swannek, pasartea bera ezin ikusirik, mundu ultramorekoa bailitzan, baina harengana hurbildu ahala metamorfosi moduko baten freskatzea nabaritzen ari zelarik nozitua zuèn tupusteko itsutasunean, Swannek, pasartea, hantxe sentitzen zuen, sumatzen, ukitzen, bere amodioaren jainkosa babesle eta isilmandatari, zeina, jendetzaren artean berarengana iritsi eta zoko bazter batera eraman ahal izatearren, soinuzko itxura haren mozorroaz jantzia baitzen.