de Charlus would be spending the evening in the Rue La Pérouse, but in a state of melancholy indifference to everything that did not involve Odette, and in particular to the details of fashionable life, a state which invested them with the charm that is to be found in anything which, being no longer an object of our desire, appears to us in its own guise.
de Charlusek arratsa rue la Pérousse-n igaroko zuela-eta lasaiturik, baina baita Odetterekin zerikusirik ez zutèn gauza ororekiko, eta batez ere handikigiroko gauzekiko, halako axolagabezia malenkoniatsuzko aldarte batean ere;