These are gatherings of the most democratic character.
Bankers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, and their clerks and students, all take part in these social assemblies upon terms of perfect equality.

The father and son not unfrequently meet and dance alike at a negro ball.
It was at one of these parties that Henry Linwood, the son of a wealthy and retired gentleman of Richmond, was first introduced to Isabella, the oldest daughter of Agnes.

The young man had just returned from Harvard College, where he had spent the previous five years.

Isabella was in her eighteenth year, and was admitted by all who knew her to be the handsomest girl, colored or white, in the city.

On this occasion, she was attired in a sky-blue silk dress, with deep black lace flounces, and bertha of the same.