In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [249]
with the gardener on war and revolution: 122–23. Her attitude to money; hatred of Eulalie; relations with Aunt Léonie; her Saturday routine: 148–54, 162–65. In her kitchen; cruelty and sentimentality; policy towards other servants; harshness to the kitchen-maid: 168–73 (cf. 151). Resembles the figures in the porch of Saint-André-des-Champs—a “mediaeval peasant”: 212. Her wild grief at the death of Aunt Léonie: 215–17. Her malapropisms: 217, and her colourful idiom: 233. Enters into service with M’s family after Aunt Léonie’s death; takes M to the Champs-Elysées: 546, 559–62, 565, 575–76, 580–81, 584, and accompanies him in pursuit of the Swanns: 591, 594–96. Prepares dinner for Norpois; compared to Michelangelo: II 21–22, 39–40. Her views on Norpois and on Paris restaurants: 76–77. Visits the water-closet in the Champs-Elysées; the “Marquise”: 88–89. Reactions to M’s illness: 93, 98. Praised by Odette: “your old nurse”: 110. Her “simple but unerring taste” in clothes; her natural distinction; “the élite of the world of the simple-minded”: 308–10. Her social connexions in the Grand Hotel, Balbec: 369–71. Her pride; attitude towards the aristocracy; forgives Mme de Villeparisis for being a marquise: 373–77. Her opinion of Bloch and of Saint-Loup: 489–91. M mocks her sentimentality: 500. Her resentment of M’s reproaches, discontent with Balbec and dislike of the “little band”: 649–51. Wants to leave Balbec: 724. In the family’s new flat in Paris; regrets at leaving Combray: III 1–2. Her preoccupation with the Guermantes: 11. Holds court below stairs; invocation to Combray: 12–14. Relations with Jupien (“Julien”): 14–18. Reflexions on the Guermantes: 20–22, and further reminiscences of Combray, Méséglise, Aunt Léonie: 22–25. Conversations with the Guermantes footmen; cult of the nobility: 35–37. Her relations with M; disapproval of his pursuit of Mme de Guermantes; her intuition, her moods and idiosyncrasies: 76–82. “The very language of Saint-Simon”: 84. Visits to her relations: 193–94. Her sympathy for the Guermantes’ lovesick footman: 193, 202, 417. During M’s grandmother’s illness; her irritating reflexions at the bedside: 408; her devoted care for the patient despite her tactlessness and insensitivity: 434–37, 449–56, 468–70. Interrupts M and Albertine making love; her knowledge of M’s doings: 489–93. Her peasant sense of propriety: 502. Admires Charlus and Jupien: IV 41–42. Entertains her daughter; her highly individual French; her dialect: 170–73. Refuses to use the telephone: 176–77 (see also V 126, 200–1). Her dislike of Albertine: 182–85. Reveals to M the circumstances that had caused his grandmother to have her photograph taken by Saint-Loup: 237–38. The servant’s lot; M’s pity and affection for her: 238–40. Prophesies that Albertine will make M unhappy: 252–53. Complaints about money-grubbers: 257. Disapproves of Céleste and Marie: 335. Shocked at seeing Charlus arm in arm with a servant: 527. With M and Albertine in Paris; makes Albertine observe the rules of the house: V 2–3, 4, 6, 10–11. Her regrets at not having said good-bye to the housekeeper at Balbec: 10–11. Her hatred of Albertine: 122–23 (see also 198–99). Listens to M’s telephone conversations: 126. Fetches a dairymaid to run an errand for M: 178–81. Sent to bring back Albertine from the Trocadéro; her vocabulary contaminated by her daughter’s slang; her inability to tell the time correctly: 196–202. How Aunt Léonie thwarted her secret plans for an outing: 475–76. Unable to contain her jealousy of Albertine: 486. Her innuendoes; her curiosity about money: 492–94. Announces Albertine’s departure: 558–59. Discovers the rings left behind by Albertine: 622–25. Alarmed at the possibility of Albertine’s return: 629–30 (cf. 596). Makes no pretence of sorrow at Albertine’s death: 648–49. Her attitude to her “masters;” despises them so as not to feel despised herself: 765–66. Her persistent errors in grammar and pronunciation: 774–75. Her attitude to liaisons between men: VI 38. In 1914, tormented by the butler about the war news: 83–87 (see also 219–26); her concern