THE SWEET CHEAT GONE - PROUST

The Sweet Cheat Gone

Grief and Oblivion

1294 Mademoiselle Albertine has gone!

1295 The first thing to be done was to read Albertine’s letter

1296 All this means nothing

1297 This calamity was the greatest that I had experienced in my

1298 When I vowed to myself that Albertine would be back

1299 Suffering, the prolongation of a spiritual shock

1300 The spirit in which Albertine had left me

1301 As for the means of bringing Albertine back

1302 The reader may remember that when I decided to live with

1303 Knowing that Saint-Loup was in Paris I had sent for him

1304 You are sure,” Robert asked me

1305 When it was possible that a telegram might have come

1306 Presently, as Saint-Loup remained silent

1307 Since Manon returned to Des Grieux

1308 I wrote to Albertine

1309 No doubt, just as I had said in the past to Albertine

1310 As this letter seemed to me to be certain of its effect

1311 Time passes, and gradually everything that we have said

1312 I have said that oblivion was beginning to perform

1313 While she was doing Albertine’s room

1314 If, however, morning, noon and night

1315 Why should I have supposed that Albertine did not care for

1316 My dear, thank you for all the nice things

1317 Albertine’s letter did not help matters in any way

1318 And at the same time

1319 I forsook all pride with regard to Albertine

1320 For the death of Albertine

1321 So, then, my life was entirely altered

1322 I asked Françoise the time

1323 How slow the day is in dying on these interminable summer

1324 Presently the sounds from the streets would begin

1325 No doubt these nights that are so short continue

1326 With the result that these several years

1327 How could she have seemed dead to me

1328 If I had found it difficult to imagine that Albertine

1329 Atmospheric changes, provoking other changes

1330 All of a sudden it was an impression

1331 Sometimes I came in collision

1332 Of course, since I entertained doubts

1333 What filled my heart now was

1334 This room in which we used to dine

1335 One morning I thought that I could see

1336 Furthermore, our mistake is our failure to value

1337 All these so pleasant moments

1338 And, to tell the truth, when I had ever possessed it

1339 How she used to hasten to see me at Balbec

1340 And yet those painful, those ineluctable truths

1341 At any rate I was glad that, before she died

1342 Why had she not said to me: I have those tastes

1343 My jealous curiosity as to what Albertine

1344 If she could have known what was about to happen

1345 I had not yet received any news from Aimé

1346 Albertine might indeed exist in my memory

1347 Monsieur will kindly forgive me for not having written

1348 To understand how deeply these words penetrated my being

1349 At last I saw before my eyes, in that arrival of Albertine

1350 No doubt it was because in that silent

1351 I saw myself astray in life

1352 The moments which I had spent with this Albertine

1353 And now Albertine, liberated once more

1354 At other times my grief assumed so many forms

1355 There are in certain affections secondary accidents

1356 If, again, this withdrawal of my different impressions

1357 Moreover these revivals of my love for Albertine

1358 Moreover a word did not even need to be connected

1359 All day long, I continued to converse with Albertine

1360 I tried at times to take an interest in the newspapers

1361 No doubt an incident such as this of the Buttes-Chaumont

1362 For the first time she seemed to me beautiful

1363 While Albertine was alive

1364 Novelists sometimes pretend in an introduction

1365 Associated now with the memory of my love, Albertine’s

1366 I took home with me the girls who had appealed



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