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Updated: April 20, 2025

After a great deal of preparatory crowing and humming, the captain began the following duet from the opera of ‘Paul and Virginia,’ in that grunting tone in which a man gets down, Heaven knows where, without the remotest chance of ever getting up again. This, in private circles, is frequently designated ‘a bass voice.’ From yon gro—ove, the varied so—ongs—’

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people