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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: boarding, and had discoloured the lining of green cloth, but
it was, nevertheless, in a good habitable condition. While
the seamen were employed in landing a stock of provisions, a
few of the artificers set to work with great eagerness to
sweep and clean the several apartments. The exterior of the
beacon was, in the meantime, examined, and found in perfect
order. The painting, though it had a somewhat blanched
appearance, adhered firmly both on the sides and roof, and
only two or three panes of glass were broken in the cupola,
which had either been blown out by the force of the wind, or
perhaps broken by sea-fowl.
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