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The apartment was small, and Hélène had furnished it in the proper scale. (How could I help but think of my home, the endless bourgeois apartment from Baron Haussmann’s time in which you had to slip around dozens of useless chairs, bureaus, and tables and consoles placed exactly where they shouldn’t have been, the same as my parents and my brother and so many times my brother’s wife and the two cats and the maid?) Like that delicate perfume, slightly dry and harsh, while there it was napthaline, lavender, clothes that had been worn too long, catskin vests, chest-cold pills, the vapors of a century of soap clinging to the wallpaper, the bad-smelling coughs of old people.
El departamento era pequeño y Hélène lo había amueblado en la justa escala (cómo no pensar en mi casa, el interminable departamento burgués de los tiempos del barón Haussmann donde había que deslizarse entre docenas de sillas inútiles, cómodas y mesas y consolas puestas exactamente donde no hubieran debido estar, lo mismo que mis padres y mi hermano y tantas veces la mujer de mi hermano y los dos gatos y la sirvienta). Como este perfume tan leve, ligeramente seco y áspero, mientras allá la naftalina, el benjuí, la ropa demasiado usada, los chalecos de piel de gato, las pastillas pectorales, los vapores de un siglo de sopa pegada al empapelado, las toses malolientes de los viejos.
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