I was glad he did not come with us, and gave myself up to the excitement of my first ball.

Alice was surrounded by her acquaintances at once, and I was asked to dance a quadrille by Mr.Parker, whose gloves were much too large, and whose white trowsers were much too long.
"I kept the flowers you gave me," he said in a breathless way.
"Oh yes, I remember; mustn't we forward now ?" "Mr.Morgeson's very fond of flowers." "So he is.

How de do, Miss Ryder." Miss Ryder, my vis-a-vis, bowed, looking scornfully at my partner, who was only a clerk, while hers was a law student.

I immediately turned to Mr.Parker with affable smiles, and went into a kind of dumb-show of conversation, which made him warm and uncomfortable.

Mrs.Judge Ryder sailed by on Ben Somers's arm.
"Put your shoulders down," she whispered to her daughter, who had poked one very much out of her dress.