Illustrerade Proust, del II

"It was the hour at which ladies and gentlemen came out every day for a long stroll at the front, exposed to the merciless fire of the lognette fastened upon them, as if they had each borne some disfigurement which she felt it her duty to inspect in its minutest detail, by the senior judge's wife, proudly seated there with her back to the band-stand, in the middle of the dread line of chairs on which presently they too, actors turned critics, would come and establish themselves, to scrutinise in turn the passing crowd." (s. 846)