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- As the travelers crossed that hospitable threshold their nostrils were
- met by the most savory and delightful smells proceeding from the
- kitchen, which made Arabella, at least, realize how very hungry she was.
- The frizzling sound, much louder now, was clearly from the same source,
- and the hostess, bidding them take off their things, first there in her
- parlor, rushed breathlessly back to the culinary tasks which their
- arrival had evidently interrupted.
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