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Updated: June 27, 2025
And he's giving a great ball the day after to-morrow. 'Will you be at the ball? inquired Arkady. 'He gives it in my honour, answered Matvy Ilyitch, almost pityingly. 'Do you dance? 'Yes; I dance, but not well. 'That's a pity! There are pretty girls here, and it's a disgrace for a young man not to dance.
In reality, Matvy Ilyitch had not got much beyond those political men of the days of Alexander, who used to prepare for an evening party at Madame Svyetchin's by reading a page of Condillac; only his methods were different, more modern.
Matvy Ilyitch used to speak with great respect of Guizot, and tried to impress every one with the idea that he did not belong to the class of routiniers and high-and-dry bureaucrats, that not a single phenomenon of social life passed unnoticed by him.... All such phrases were very familiar to him.
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