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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: often bribed to our tasks with promises of horses or of cattle
drives.
"Von had been in the army, and Dad was an old sea-dog, and they
were both stern disciplinarians; only the two girls had no mother,
and neither had I, and they were two men after all. They spoiled
us terribly. You see, they didn't have any wives, and they made
chums out of us--when our tasks were done. We had to learn to do
everything about the house twice as well as the native servants did
it--that was so that we should know how to manage some day. And we
always made the cocktails, which was too holy a rite for any
servant. Then, too, we were never allowed anything we could not
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