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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: month. The house, being now in a more complete state, was
provided with bedding, and they spent the night pretty well,
though they complained of having been much disturbed at the
time of high-water by the shaking and tremulous motion of
their house and by the plashing noise of the sea upon mortar
gallery. Here James Glen's versatile powers were again at
work in cheering up those who seemed to be alarmed, and in
securing everything as far as possible. On this occasion he
had only to recall to the recollections of some of them the
former night which they had spent on the beacon, the wind and
sea being then much higher, and their habitation in a far less
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