Note 53 — Chapter XIV · 1888. ‘MACBETH’—‘THE DEAD HEART’—‘RAVENSWOOD.’

As an instance of the manager’s happy touch in a trifling matter, we might name the State trumpets constantly “blaring” and sounding as the King approached, which offered nothing of the usual “super” arrangement. The men seemed to tramp along the street as though conscious of their own dignity, warning those whom it might concern to make way for their high and puissant lord.