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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: man in the white cap wished them pleasant slumbers.
It was furnished with a bed, a chair, and some conveniences. The
door did not lock on the inside; and the only sign of adornment was a
couple of framed pictures, one close above the head of the bed, and
the other opposite the foot, and both curtained, as we may sometimes
see valuable water-colours, or the portraits of the dead, or works of
art more than usually skittish in the subject. It was perhaps in the
hope of finding something of this last description that M'Naughten's
comrade pulled aside the curtain of the first. He was startlingly
disappointed. There was no picture. The frame surrounded, and the
curtain was designed to hide, an oblong aperture in the partition,
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