One of my gayest actions was sitting down two dances in preference to having Lord Bolton's eldest son for my partner, who danced too ill to be endured

Robin Vick in the JA's Report for 1999 gives an account of this poor chap, William Orde-Powlett, who danced so ill that JA like Elizabeth Bennet preferred to sit down instead of dancing with him.

This poor lad was only 16 at the time of the ball; Jane was 23.

Also, Robin Vick notes that:

In October 1801 he was sent as a pupil to Sydney Smith in Edingburgh who reported that " young Powlett is about 19, awkward, and reserved and not of interesting appearance".

In November Smith thought him " a very eccentric being, but I am in hopes I shall make something of him...but the following January "Mr Powlett ran away , and behaved in so extraodinary a manner that I was forced to desire Lord Bolton to remove him immediately"

P221,JAS Reports,Vol:V

Not much sympathy for him for JA's corner, though, note.