identify the type of text in the following passages: The dancers were trickling away on to the touchlines of the long-floor. The walls were decorated with scenes from the remoter past, portrayed in what no doubt an advanced style, so that in the one nearest Dixon, for example, some lack of perspective or similar commodity made a phalanx of dwarf infantrymen seem to be falling from the skies upon their much larger barbarian adversaries who, unaware of this danger overhead, gazed threateningly into the empty middle distance. Lowering his eyes from these memorials, he caught sight of Michie talking and laughing with his girl. She had the kind of water-gipsy face that affected him uncomfortably.
