just as, at home, he used to enjoy the thought of the smooth efficiency of his household, the smartness of his own wardrobe and of his servants' liveries, the soundness of his investments, with the same relish as when he read in Saint-Simon, who was one of his favourite authors, of the machinery of daily life at Versailles, what Mme.
plazer desinteresatua, klase alfer-nagi baten libertimenduak marrazten nahiz deskribatzen diren nobela nahiz koadro baten aurrean sentituko lukeen berbera, bere etxean bezala, alegia, atsegintzen zenean bere bizitza domestikoaren funtzionamenduari, edo bere jantzitegiaren edo otseinen uniformearen dotoreziari, edo bere burtsa-baloreen kokamendu egokiari erreparatzerakoan, edo Saint-Simonen izkribuetan-bere autore hobetsienetarikoa berau-irakurtzerakoan Versaillesko eguneroko jardunaren mekanika, Mme. de Maintenon-en otorduen menua, edo Lulliren zikoizkeria zuhurra eta bizimodu zarrastela.