The Guermantes Way

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Marcel Proust. The Guermantes Way

The Guermantes Way

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THE GUERMANTES WAY

CHAPTER ONE

[THE DUCHESSE DE GUERMANTES]

PART 2

CHAPTER ONE [continued]

[MY GRANDMOTHER'S ILLNESS]

CHAPTER TWO

[A VISIT FROM ALBERTINE]

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Marcel Proust

Published by Good Press, 2021

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And to be sure, had it not been against the regulations, what repose untinged by sadness I could have tasted there, guarded by that atmosphere of tranquillity, vigilance and gaiety which was maintained by a thousand wills controlled and free from care, a thousand heedless spirits, in that great community called a barracks where, time having taken the form of action, the sad bell that tolled the hours outside was replaced by the same joyous clarion of those martial calls, the ringing memory of which was kept perpetually alive in the paved streets of the town, like the dust that floats in a sunbeam;—a voice sure of being heard, and musical because it was the command not only of authority to obedience but of wisdom to happiness.

"So you'd rather stay with me and sleep here, would you, than to go the hotel by yourself?" Saint-Loup asked me, smiling.

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