If you want to get a long-drawn benefit from this book, don't think once skimming the cream is enough for that.
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If you want to get a long-drawn benefit from this book, don't think once skimming the cream is enough for that.
Source: tatoeba (2946787)
Placed opposite, on a low seat, was her granddaughter, a huge book propped on her knee, from which she was reading aloud. Perhaps there was a charm in that sweet voice, which gave its own unconscious fascination to the long-drawn pages; but there was, also, the still stronger charm of habit.
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