Comme cela la juste proportion serait rétablie.» Mais regrettant de s’être laissé aller à parler même légèrement de choses sérieuses: «Nous avons une bien belle conversation, dit-il ironiquement, je ne sais pas pourquoi nous abordons ces «sommets», et se tournant vers mon grand-père: «Donc Saint-Simon raconte que Maulevrier avait eu l’audace de tendre la main à ses fils. Vous savez, c’est ce Maulevrier dont il dit: «Jamais je ne vis dans cette épaisse bouteille que de l’humeur, de la grossièreté et des sottises.» «Épaisses ou non, je connais des bouteilles où il y a tout autre chose», dit vivement Flora, qui tenait à avoir remercié Swann elle aussi, car le présent de vin d’Asti s’adressait aux deux. →
In that way we should arrive at the right proportion between 'information' and 'publicity.'" But at once regretting that he had allowed himself to speak, even in jest, of serious matters, he added ironically: "We are having a most entertaining conversation; I cannot think why we climb to these lofty summits," and then, turning to my grandfather: "Well, Saint-Simon tells how Maulevrier had had the audacity to offer his hand to his sons. You remember how he says of Maulevrier, 'Never did I find in that coarse bottle anything but ill-humour, boorishness, and folly.'" "Coarse or not, I know bottles in which there is something very different!" said Flora briskly, feeling bound to thank Swann as well as her sister, since the present of Asti had been addressed to them both.