And for all that he was driving through a city of stone to immure himself in a house without grass or garden, what was incessantly before his eyes was a park which he owned, near Combray, where, at four in the afternoon, before coming to the asparagus-bed, thanks to the breeze that was wafted across the fields from Méséglise, he could enjoy the fragrant coolness of the air as well beneath an arbour of hornbeams in the garden as by the bank of the pond, fringed with forget-me-not and iris;
Eta behin eta berriro zeharkatu arren harrizko hiria bere ostatu hertsira erretiratzerakoan, berez, begi aurrean etengabe zeukana besterik zen: