The Austrians had to endure this sort of rejection in Ballrooms.
On the promenade their features were forgotten.

They bowed to statues.
Now, the officers of Austria who do not belong to a Croat regiment, or to one drawn from any point of the extreme East of the empire, are commonly gentlemanly men; and though they can be vindictive after much irritation, they may claim at least as good a reputation for forbearance in a conquered country as our officers in India.

They are not ill-humoured, and they are not peevishly arrogant, except upon provocation.

The conduct of the tender Italian dames was vexatious.

It was exasperating to these knights of the slumbering sword to hear their native waltzes sounding of exquisite Vienna, while their legs stretched in melancholy inactivity on the Piazza pavement, and their arms encircled no ductile waists.