Et quand elle vit que, malgré ses conseils, ma tante n’en faisait qu’à sa tête et jetait l’argent—Françoise le croyait du moins—pour des créatures indignes, elle commença à trouver bien petits les dons que ma tante lui faisait en comparaison des sommes imaginaires prodiguées à Eulalie. Il n’y avait pas dans les environs de Combray de ferme si conséquente que Françoise ne supposât qu’Eulalie eût pu facilement l’acheter, avec tout ce que lui rapporteraient ses visites. Il est vrai qu’Eulalie faisait la même estimation des richesses immenses et cachées de Françoise. →
Françoise," just to shew that they considered themselves to be 'not as good.' And when she saw that, despite all her warnings, my aunt continued to do exactly as she pleased, and to fling money away with both hands (or so, at least, Françoise believed) on undeserving objects, she began to find that the presents she herself received from my aunt were very tiny compared to the imaginary riches squandered upon Eulalie, There was not, in the neighbourhood of Combray, a farm of such prosperity and importance that Françoise doubted Eulalie's ability to buy it, without thinking twice, out of the capital which her visits to my aunt had 'brought in.' It must be added that Eulalie had formed an exactly similar estimate of the vast and secret hoards of Françoise.