A little further on, a gray-haired man sat with his back against a post, his eyes closed, as the beads of his prayer chain slipped through his fingers, his lips moving in prayer.
The waltz and the one-step are the two most attractive features of this entertaining social art, partly because of the opportunity to show off to a good advantage the beautiful form and the suppleness and grace of the well-trained dancer, and more especially on account of a certain, subtle, unexplainable influence emanating from those of opposite sexes when brought into close contact with one another.
It has been my fortune to have lived for seventy years in my native state, Mississippi, and until within the last few months to have led an active life from boyhood to my present age, never without some occupation which was congenial to me.