That was because he and Mme. Swann-inasmuch as their daughter lived with them, as her lessons, her games, her friendships depended upon them-contained for me, like Gilberte, perhaps even more than Gilberte, as befitted subjects that had an all-powerful control over her in whom it must have had its source, an undefined, an inaccessible quality of melancholy charm.
Baina existentzia hartaz, inork ematekotan, Swann jaunak bai eman zidala iradokizunik franko, geroxeago, bere alabaren bila etorri zenean. Izan ere, Swann jaun-andreek-alaba haien etxean bizi zelako, beren alabaren ikasketak, jolasak, lagunarteak, dena, beren mende zeukatelako-bazuten niretzat, Gilbertek bezala, edo Gilbertek berak baino areago beharbada, beraren gaineko jainko-jainkosa ahalguztidunak izanik berez zegokièn ahalmen-iturburuaren arabera, ezin argituzko ezin ezagutze bat, halako xarma ezinago oinazetsua.