Malgré mon désir d’enlacer leur taille souple et d’attirer à moi les boucles étoilées de leur tête odorante, nous passions sans nous arrêter, mes parents n’allant plus à Tansonville depuis le mariage de Swann, et, pour ne pas avoir l’air de regarder dans le parc, au lieu de prendre le chemin qui longe sa clôture et qui monte directement aux champs, nous en prenions un autre qui y conduit aussi, mais obliquement, et nous faisait déboucher trop loin. →
Despite my desire to throw my arms about their pliant forms and to draw down towards me the starry locks that crowned their fragrant heads, we would pass them by without stopping, for my parents had ceased to visit Tansonville since Swann's marriage, and, so as not to appear to be looking into his park, we would, instead of taking the road which ran beside its boundary and then climbed straight up to the open fields, choose another way, which led in the same direction, but circuitously, and brought us out rather too far from home.