text: " But however great a bore the sight of quadrilles may have been to the khan ample amends were made to him on this occasion by the musical performances with which several of the ladies ("though they all at first refused evidently from modesty") gratified the company in the intervals of the dance and at which he expresses unbounded delight; but this does not prevent his again launching out into a tirade against the unseemly methods as they appear to him used by the English to signify applause or approbation