Chapter 18: Chapter 18

II (Continued) The pleasures of M. Nissim Bernard (continued)—Outline of the strange character of Morel—M. Charlus dines with the Verdurins. We were waiting, Albertine and I, at the Balbec station of the little local railway. We had driven there in the hotel omnibus, because it was raining. Not far away from us was M. Nissim Bernard, with a black eye. He had recently forsaken the chorister from Athalie for the waiter at a much frequented farmhouse in the neighbourhood, known as the…