But when I arrived at the Champs-Elysées,-and, as at first sight it appeared, was in a position to confront my love, so as to make it undergo the necessary modifications, with its living and independent cause-as soon as I was in the presence of that Gilberte Swann on the sight of whom I had counted to revive the images that my tired memory had lost and could not find again, of that Gilberte Swann with whom I had been playing the day before, and whom I had just been prompted to greet, and then to recognise, by a blind instinct like that which, when we are walking, sets one foot before the other, without giving us time to think what we are doing, then at once it became as though she and the little girl who had inspired my dreams had been two different people.
neskatila hura eta nire amets guztien eragilea ez zirela pertsona bera, bi guztiz bana baizik. Adibidez, bezperatik oroimenean neukana suzko bi begi baldin baziren, masail mardul dirdaitsuetan kokatuak, une hartan, ordea, aurrean nekusanak, Gilberteren aurpegiak, beste zerbait erakusten zidan temati, nik zeharo ahaztua nuena: