About “À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs”
The narrator's mother, preparing for a dinner with M. de Norpois, regrets that Professor Cottard is traveling and that she herself has stopped seeing Swann, since both would likely have interested the former Ambassador. The narrator's father replies that an eminent guest like Cottard could never be out of place at dinner, but that Swann, with his ostentation, is a vulgar show-off the Marquis de Norpois would find distasteful.
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