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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: on my return to-morrow I may see things in good order.' `The
furniture of both houses wants much rubbing. Mrs. -'s carpets
are absurd beyond anything I have seen. I want her to turn
the fenders up with the bottom to the fireplace: the carpets,
when not likely to be in use, folded up and laid as a
hearthrug partly under the fender.'
My grandfather was king in the service to his finger-
tips. All should go in his way, from the principal
lightkeeper's coat to the assistant's fender, from the gravel
in the garden-walks to the bad smell in the kitchen, or the
oil-spots on the store-room floor. It might be thought there
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