When, after that first evening at the Verdurins', he had had the little phrase played over to him again, and had sought to disentangle from his confused impressions how it was that, like a perfume or a caress, it swept over and enveloped him, he had observed that it was to the closeness of the intervals between the five notes which composed it and to the constant repetition of two of them that was due that impression of a frigid, a contracted sweetness;
Verdurintarreneko gaualdi hartan, pasartetxoa berriro jo ziezaioten eskatu zuenean, ahalegindua zen argitzen ea zergatik pasarte xume hark inguratzen, biltzen, blaitzen zuen bere pertsona osoa, lurrin edo laztan batek egingo zukeèn bezala, eta baita ohartu ere ezen gozotasun astitsu eta hozminezko inpresio hura perpausa osatzen zutèn bost noten arteko tarte ahulari eta bost nota horietako biren errepikapen etengabeari zor zitzaiela;