Et certes cela ne veut pas dire que M. Legrandin ne fût pas sincère quand il tonnait contre les snobs. Il ne pouvait pas savoir, au moins par lui-même, qu’il le fût, puisque nous ne connaissons jamais que les passions des autres, et que ce que nous arrivons à savoir des nôtres, ce n’est que d’eux que nous avons pu l’apprendre. →
"Oh, how you hurt me! No, I do not know the Guermantes family. Do not remind me of the great sorrow of my life." And since this other, this irrepressible, dominant, despotic Legrandin, if he lacked our Legrandin's charming vocabulary, shewed an infinitely greater promptness in expressing himself, by means of what are called 'reflexes,' it followed that, when Legrandin the talker attempted to silence him, he would already have spoken, and it would be useless for our friend to deplore the bad impression which the revelations of his _alter ego_ must have caused, since he could do no more now than endeavour to mitigate them.