Some men laugh habitually in falsetto.... We remember once to have

Some men laugh habitually in falsetto…. We remember once to have heard a feminine laugh so painfully and regularly tuneful that it could literally have been reduced to musical notation. – “Laughter,” in The Spectator for the week ending Saturday, January 19, 1889

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