Henry James Quote

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.


The Portrait of a Lady (1881)


Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as...

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as...

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as...

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as...