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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: he who is served?" Peter looked at the stranger: then it flashed on him
that he was mad.
"Oh," he said, "if it comes to that, what's anything! You might as well
say, sitting there in your old linen shirt, that you were as great as
Rhodes or Beit or Barnato, or a king. Of course a man's just the same
whatever he's got on or whatever he has; but he isn't the same to other
people."
"There have kings been born in stables," said the stranger.
Then Peter saw that he was joking, and laughed. "It must have been a long
time ago; they don't get born there now," he said. "Why, if God Almighty
came to this country, and hadn't half-a-million in shares, they wouldn't
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