He belonged to a good family, and had once been music-master to my grandmother's sisters; so that when, after losing his wife and inheriting some property, he had retired to the neighbourhood of Combray, we used often to invite him to our house.
Familia onekoa, amonaren ahizpen piano-irakaslea izana zen, eta, alargundu eta jarauntsia jaso ondoren, Combray ingurura erretiratua zenez geroztik, sarri izaten genuen gurean bisitari.