A. You are a graceful dancer.
This passage allows us to see into the inner struggle and loneliness of the character. This is revealed in the phrase "interior gloom" while he faces the "open lattice" but he was not looking at anything at all. He was engrossed in his own thoughts and feelings of a closure or an ending of life implied in the phrase "the fire had smouldered to ashes." The surroundings was so silent and cold as revealed in the words "damp, mild air," "cloudy evening" and "so still."
Confirmation is a holy sacrament, it is performed or received after you have been baptized When you are baptized, you receive the Holy Ghost and the sacrament of Confirmation validates, or confirms the strenght received by the baptism. There must be a preparation course (spiritual) to receive the Confirmation, it must be received in a state of "grace" (after a confession) and it must be performed by a Bishop. The Roman Catholics receive the Confirmation between the ages of 12 and 17.
No, you don't because it is not a compound sentence.