Marcel Proust Quotes
Swann's Father, An Excellent But An Eccentric Man In Whom The Least Little Thing Would, It Seemed, Often Check The Flow Of His Spirits And Divert The Current Of His Thoughts. Several Times In The Course Of A Year I Would Hear My Grandfather Tell At Table The Story, Which Never Varied, Of The Behaviour Of M. Swann The Elder Upon The Death Of His Wife, By Whose Bedside He Had Watched Day And Night. My Grandfather, Who Had Not Seen Him For A Long Time, Hastened To Join Him At The Swanns' Family Property On The Outskirts Of Combray, And Managed To Entice Him For A Moment, Weeping Profusely, Out Of The Death-chamber, So That He Should Not Be Present When The Body Was Laid In Its Coffin. They Took A Turn Or Two In The Park, Where There Was A Little Sunshine. Suddenly M. Swann Seized My Grandfather
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