Ivan Turgenev

“ He slapped Arkady on the back and called him "nephew" loudly, bestowed on Bazarov--who was dressed in a shabby frock coat--an absent-minded but indulgent sidelong glance, and an indistinct but affable grunt in which the words "I" and "very" were vaguely distinguishable; held out a finger to Sitnikov and smiled at him though his head had already turned round to greet someone else; even to Madame Kukshina, who appeared at the ball without a crinoline, wearing dirty gloves and a bird of paradise in her hair, he said "enchanté." There were crowds of people and plenty of men dancers ”

“ Both young men left immediately after supper. They were pursued by a nervously angry but fainthearted laugh from Madame Kukshina, whose vanity had been deeply wounded by the fact that neither of them had paid the slightest attention to her. She stayed later than anyone else at the ball, and at four o'clock in the morning she was dancing a polka-mazurka in Parisian style with Sitnikov. The governor's ball culminated in this edifying spectacle. ”

“ He behaved graciously to everyone, to some with a shade of disgust, to others with a shade of respect, he was gallant, "en vrai chevalier français," to all the ladies, and was continually bursting into hearty resounding laughter, in which no one else joined, as befits a high official. ”