His practice of flustering himself daily with claret.

This he said, thinking that Alan would be pleased; but the Highlandman’s vanity was ready to startle at a less matter than that.

After all, the more ritzily dressed members of the audience had just made similar entrances into the New York State Theater, with a red carpet and photographers.

Ther' stonds a skoo', a Sunday skoo', wheer recollection dwells.