It was Madame Nilsson 's first appearance appearance that winter , and what the daily press had already learned to describe as " an exceptionally brilliant audience " had gathered gather to hear her , transported transport through the slippery , snowy streets in private broughams , in the spacious family landau , or in the humbler but more convenient " Brown coupe . "

Preserved preserve by three Brahmins , the inviolate deity , bearing the Yellow Diamond in its forehead , was removed remove by night , and was transported transport to the second of the sacred cities of India -- the city of Benares .