It was the closest thing they had to a burial plot, a spot where his memory had soaked into the city.
Pour elles deux, c'était ce qui se rapprochait le plus d'une tombe où se recueillir, un lieu où sa mémoire s’était infusée dans la cité.
Most of it had soaked into my clothes, but the oil had also seeped into the food and smeared over the script which I was to read.
La plupart avait imbibé dans mes vêtements, mais l'huile avait également filtré dans la nourriture et enduit au-dessus du manuscrit que je devais lire.
It can't be, he said, lowering his head straight away and staring at the water marks that had soaked into his shoes during his walks.
Mais enfin, dit-il, il baissa aussitôt la tête et regarda les traces d'eau qui s'étaient imprégnées sur ses chaussures durant son long chemin.
And soon, mechanically, dispirited after a dreary day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake.
Et bientôt, machinalement, accablé par la morne journée et la perspective d’un triste lendemain, je portai à mes lèvres une cuillerée du thé où j’avais laissé s’amollir un morceau de madeleine.
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