Had there been such a thing as a determination to apply to Swann a social coefficient peculiar to himself, as distinct from all the other sons of other stockbrokers in his father's position, his coefficient would have been rather lower than theirs, because, leading a very simple life, and having always had a craze for 'antiques' and pictures, he now lived and piled up his collections in an old house which my grandmother longed to visit, but which stood on the Quai d'Orléans, a neighbourhood in which my great-aunt thought it most degrading to be quartered.
Edozein modutara ere, aplikatu nahi izan bagenio Swanni halako gizarte-koefiziente pertsonal bat, beraren gurasoena bezalatsuko egoeran zeudekeèn burtsa-agenteen gainerako semeengandik bereizteko, koefiziente hura apalxeagoa izango zatekeen berarentzat, zeren eta, maneretan oso sinplea eta antzinako objektu eta margolanekiko betiere halako "apeta" batek joa izaki, hotel zahar batean bizi baitzen garai hartan, eta hantxe metatzen bere bilduma haiek, gure amonak ikusteko irrika bizia ohi zuenak hain zuzen ere, baina non izango eta, quai d´Orléans-en, hots, gure izeba-amonak han bizitzeari desohoregarri zeritzòn auzo batean. "Zale hutsa zara, ala aditua?