...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as on…

Louisa May Alcott
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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again. ✨ Louisa May Alcott (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated), p.602, Delphi Classics
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