" Perhaps this child bears some resemblance to your brother, " suggested Lady Merryweather. " He might have been born deformed, or without a nose" . She laughed a throaty laugh.
But the most haunting of all the melodies is the warbling laughter of the Tulameen; its delicate note is far more powerful, more far-reaching than the throaty thunders of Niagara.
'Some of us, ' she said, and all at once she was leaning forward in her chair and whispering in a throaty sort of voice George had never heard her use before.