He had not even been offended when she had said to
him stolidly:M.
I said to these persons, so headstrong in
theirjudgment: Mme. Bloch, ifhe had heard him would have been more puzzled even than
with M. I was struck by the similarity of his diction to Swanns, closer nowthan at
Balbec. I should think so, indeed, hes magnificent, you are quite right toadmire
him. For some timepast, without knowing exactly what was wrong, she had been
complainingof her health.
Bloch, ifhe had heard him would have been more
puzzled even than with M. You have what I have hadoccasion to call mental albumen.
No; I have nothing to say against your nervous energy. Wait, now,my nephew
Saint-Loup is quite a suitable companion for you, at apinch.
Cottard had told us to take her
temperature.
He is not like the rest of them; he has nice
manners; heis really serious. He jumped in beside the cabman, took the reins, and
the horse trottedoff.
I thought I would take advantage of what M. The
Duchesse de Guermantes seems to be very clever. I could not help smiling at this
epithet serious, to which theintonation that M.
Drumont has the impudence to put the Revisionists
in the same bagas the Protestants and the Jews. Youre a fine specimen
ofneurasthenia, thats what you are, I told him.
And then she will grow tiredof telling me, I know
her; get along with you. I was thinking of taking advantage of this unexpected
kindness on M. You might even arrange parties to give us a good laugh.