Status Updates From Du côté de chez Swann

"While I was reading in the garden..."

"If I had fallen seriously ill, if I had been captured by bandits, convinced that my father was in too close communication with the supreme powers, had letters of recommendation to the Good Lord too irrestistible for my illness or captivity to be anything but empty simulacra that pposed no danger to me, I. would have waited calmly for the inevitable hour of my return to the correct reality, [...]"

kind of speechless

"But in the matter of Bergotte he had spoken truly..."

"Except on such days as these..."