He was warmly received by Constable and Hunter, and enjoyed their hospitality for some days.

After business matters had been disposed of, he was taken in hand by Hunter, the junior partner, and led off by him to enjoy the perilous hospitality of the Forfarshire lairds.
Those have been called the days of heroic drinking.

Intemperance prevailed to an enormous extent.

It was a time of greater licentiousness, perhaps, in all the capitals of Europe, and this northern one among the rest, than had been known for a long period.

Men of the best education and social position drank like the Scandinavian barbarians of olden times.