Within a Budding Grove

Within a Budding Grove is the second part of In Search of Lost Time, a novel originally written in French by Marcel Proust in 1913.

This edition of Within a Budding Grove is based on The Modern Library publishers edition of New York, 1924 and C. K. Scott Moncrieff translation.

"My mother, when it was a question of our having M. de Norpois to dinner for the first time, having expressed her regret that Professor Cottard was away from home, and that she herself had quite ceased to see anything of Swann, since either of these might have helped to entertain the old Ambassador, my father replied that so eminent a guest, so distinguished a man of science as Cottard could never be out of place at a dinner-table, but that Swann, with his ostentation, his habit of crying aloud from the house-tops the name of everyone that he knew, however slightly, was an impossible vulgarian whom the Marquis de Norpois would be sure to dismiss as—to use his own epithet—a "pestilent" fellow".