Sentence:  In the end , I did the same old picture , the naked girl and the guy in the doorway , only I put a Lord Byron shirt on the guy , gave him a sword <WSD>instead</WSD> of a pistol , and painted in furniture from the stills of a costume movie . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  on the contrary; rather (or instead), he wrote her a letter"