Read the following sentence from "The Balek Scales."
My grandfather was the first person bold enough to test the justice of the Baleks, the family who lived in the chateau and drove two carriages, who always maintained one boy from the village while he studied theology at the seminary in Prague, the family with whom the priest played taroc every Wednesday, on whom the local reeve in his carriage emblazoned with the Imperial coat of arms, made an annual New Year's Day call and on whom the Emperor conferred a title on the first day of the year in 1900.
The speaker uses the ideas in this sentence to most likely imply that the Baleks
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are generous to the people who lived in the village.
are generous to the people who lived in the village.
worked hard to earn their new title from the emperor.
worked hard to earn their new title from the emperor.
mindlessly fulfill the duties required of their social status.
mindlessly fulfill the duties required of their social status.
did not trust the narrator's grandfather and were suspicious of him.