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The door had stood open then, with a panel of warm firelight lying across the roadway, and as he halted and peered into the room it was a kitchen, and the light from the open hearth glinted on rows of china plates ranged along the dresser he saw two girls beside the fire; the one seated and reading from a book in her lap, the other on the hearth-mat half reclined against her sister's knee, over which she had flung an arm to prop her chin as she listened.... He remembered the sand strewn on the slate floor, the fresh sea-smell in this room so confidingly open to the night the scene so intimate, so homely, that the traveller standing in the doorway with the sea-spray on his cloak could scarcely believe in the tide-races across which he had been voyaging for hours.
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