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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: explanation of this state of things.' `The cause of the
Commissioners dismissing you is expressed in the minute; and
it must be a matter of regret to you that you have been so
much engaged in smuggling, and also that the Reports relative
to the cleanliness of the Lighthouse, upon being referred to,
rather added to their unfavourable opinion.' `I do not go
into the dwelling-house, but severely chide the lightkeepers
for the disagreement that seems to subsist among them.' `The
families of the two lightkeepers here agree very ill. I have
effected a reconciliation for the present.' `Things are in a
very HUMDRUM state here. There is no painting, and in and out
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