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: Lighthouse' was not forgotten.
[Tuesday, 30th Oct.]
On reaching the rock it was found that a very heavy sea
still ran upon it; but the writer having been disappointed on
two former occasions, and, as the erection of the house might
now be considered complete, there being nothing wanted
externally, excepting some of the storm-shutters for the
defence of the windows, he was the more anxious at this time
to inspect it. Two well-manned boats were therefore ordered
to be in attendance; and, after some difficulty, the wind
being at N.N.E., they got safely into the western creek,
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