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She danced over the churchyard, but the dead did not dance--they had something better to do than to dance.
Dance shalt thou from door to door, and where proud, vain children dwell, thou shalt knock, that they may hear thee and tremble
Why, everybody's goin' to dance to- night, all but th' old squire and Mrs.
At the end, as the band slowed in the last bars, they, too, slowed, their dance fading with the music in a lengthening glide that ceased with the last lingering tone.
So that when they joined hands in the dance they felt more at their ease than is usual.