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But tell me, why did you bow to that Cambremer person, are you also her neighbour in the country?" Mme. de Saint-Euverte, seeing that the Princess seemed quite happy talking to Swann, had drifted away. "But you are, yourself, Princess!" "I! Why, they must have 'countries' everywhere, those creatures! Don't I wish I had!" "No, not the Cambremers; her own people.
When we reached a spot where we crossed an arm of the sea, which no doubt serves to feed the stagnant salt-pools, we noticed with relief the puny vegetation which sprouted through the sand of the beach. As we crossed, we saw the island on which the Cambremers had lived; but we turned away our heads.
She was a Legrandin, and used to come to Combray. But surely these Cambremers have rather a startling name. It ends just in time, but it ends badly!" she said with a laugh. "It begins no better." Swann took the point. "Yes; that double abbreviation!" "Some one very angry and very proper who didn't dare to finish the first word."
The fisherman looked at us; then he continued: "Pierre Cambremer, whom you have seen there, is the eldest of the Cambremers, who from father to son have always been sailors; their name says it the sea bends under them. Pierre was a deep-sea fisherman. He had boats, and fished for sardine, also for the big fishes, and sold them to dealers.
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