But instead of simplicity it was to ostentation that I must assign the first place if, after I had compelled Françoise, who could hold out no longer, and complained that her legs were 'giving' beneath her, to stroll up and down with me for another hour, I saw at length, emerging from the Porte Dauphine, figuring for me a royal dignity, the passage of a sovereign, an impression such as no real Queen has ever since been able to give me, because my notion of their power has been less vague, and more founded upon experience-borne along by the flight of a pair of fiery horses, slender and shapely as one sees them in the drawings of Constantin Guys, carrying on its box an enormous coachman, furred like a cossack, and by his side a diminutive groom, like Toby, "the late Beaudenord's tiger," I saw-or rather I felt its outlines engraved upon my heart by a clean and killing stab-a matchless victoria, built rather high, and hinting, through the extreme modernity of its appointments, at the forms of an earlier day, deep down in which lay negligently back Mme.
Merezimendu estetikoen eta handitasun mundutarren eskalan, lehen postua xumetasunari esleitu ohi nion, Swann anderea oinez nekusanean, mihisezko kapa poloniarra soinean, faisai-hegal batez onduriko zapi ttipia buruan, bioleta-buketa paparrean, presaka, Akazien ibilbidea zeharkatuz etxerako itzulbiderik laburrena bailitzan soilik, eta begi-kliska banaz ihardetsiz, bere siluetari urrundik antzemanik, agurtzen zutèn eta hura baino chic handiagoko emakumerik ez zela pentsatzen zutèn gizonezko zalgurdiz zihoazenei.