transported through the slippery, snowy streets in private broughams, in the spacious family landau, or in the humbler but more convenient \"Brown coupe.\" To come to the Opera in a Brown coupe was almost as honourable a way of arriving as in one's own carriage; and departure by the same means had the immense advantage of enabling one (with a playful allusion to democratic principles) to scramble into the first Brown conveyance in the line,
transported through the slippery, snowy streets in private broughams, in the spacious family landau, or in the humbler but more convenient \"Brown coupe.\" To come to the Opera in a Brown coupe was almost as honourable a way of arriving as in one's own carriage; and departure by the same means had the immense advantage of enabling one (with a playful allusion to democratic principles) to scramble into the first Brown conveyance in the line,
