all the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his dreams, they had delivered him from an obsession, they themselves were, in turn, enriched by the absorption; they shewed him the palpable realisation of his fancies, and they interested his mind; they took shape and grew solid before-his eyes, and at the same time they soothed his troubled heart. Ah! had fate but allowed him to share a single dwelling with Odette, so that in her house he should be in his own;
Odette bizi zeneko mundua ez zela, alegia, berak, Swannek, etengabe irudikatzen zuèn eta beharbada beraren irudimenean izan ezik beste inon existitzen ez zèn beste mundu ikaragarri eta naturaz gaindiko hura, baizik eta hauxe, benetako unibertsoa, ezein tristura berezirik ez zeriona, oraintxe han bertan idaztera zihoàn mahai huraxe eta dastatzera eskainiko zitzaiòn edari huraxe biltzen zituena, objektu xume haiek guztiak alegia, berak, Swannek, une hartan jakin-min eta miresmenez bezainbateko esker onez zekuskienak, zeren eta, bere ametsak xurgatuz berauen morrontzapetik askatua bazuten, objektuok, ordea, beraiez aberastuak izaki, ametson betegintzarre ukigarria erakusten baitzioten, eta izpiritua kilikatzen, erliebea hartzen baitzuten Swannen begiraden pean eta, bide batez, beraren bihotza baretzen.