from the fields , and cattle were turnedturnon to the eddish .
It was Madame Nilsson 's first appearanceappearancethat winter , and what the daily press had already learned to describe as " an exceptionally brilliant audience " had gatheredgatherto hear her , transportedtransportthrough the slippery , snowy streets in private broughams , in the spacious family landau , or in the humbler but more convenient " Brown coupe . "