“ for men are more especially accessible to certain ways, certain graces of the heart or of the mind which they cannot resist. ”
Honoré de Balzac, Colonel Chabert (1832). copy citation
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
|---|---|
| Source | Colonel Chabert |
| Topic | heart mind |
| Date | 1832 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Colonel_Chabert |
Context
“By tender attentions and unfailing sweetness she seemed anxious to wipe out the memory of the sufferings he had endured, and to earn forgiveness for the woes which, as she confessed, she had innocently caused him. She delighted in displaying for him the charms she knew he took pleasure in, while at the same time she assumed a kind of melancholy; for men are more especially accessible to certain ways, certain graces of the heart or of the mind which they cannot resist. She aimed at interesting him in her position, and appealing to his feelings so far as to take possession of his mind and control him despotically.
Ready for anything to attain her ends, she did not yet know what she was to do with this man;”
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