Guy De Maupassant. Our heart (№ 192520)

But in this love to itself was the secret of her charm and her power over men. She so admired the other petted the grace of her form and the beauty of all its individuals, looking for and finding everything that could further stress them, so picking up subtle hints that made her charms more neotrazimoi, and his eyes were still phenomenal, and so skilfully had recourse to all the above decorating her own that gradually found everything that could appeal to others.