throat-tones

Updated: May 14, 2025

Ogan 'feels it to be such a beautiful dispensation, my dear, that, owing to a death that very morning in the surgical ward, we happened to have a bed ready for the poor man within three hours of the accident." She had exchanged her deep throat-tones for a high reedy note which perfectly simulated the matron's lady-like inflections.

Edith Wharton - The Fruit of the Tree