text:  Several hundreds stood up every gentleman with a lady; and they advanced and retired several times holding each other by the hand to the sound of the music: at last the circle they had formed broke up some running off to the right and some to the left--then a gentleman leaving his lady would strike out obliquely across the room sometimes making direct for another lady at a distance and sometimes stooping and flourishing with his legs as he went along: when he approached her he made a sort of salaam and then retreated