Explanation: Thus respect and love go together, and a certain cheerfulness in performance of their duty is the particular distinction of the lower part of this family.

Answer: These lines have been quoted from Steele’s “The Coverley Household”. a beautiful essay in The Spectator. Here the essayist portrays the atmosphere and the charming relationship between the master and the servants in the Coverley Household.

In the Coverley Household, there prevailed a very beautiful relationship between the master and the servants. The master, especially Sir Roger de Coverley treated his servants in a kind-hearted and benevolent manner. The servants were never in awe of their master. Whatever they did for their master, they did it with respect and a cheerful heart. Receiving an order from their master was a reward to them. Because they knew that their master always thinks of them. He will not scold them for a trivial fault, nor threaten them with dismissal from service nor will he use any abusive language to hurt them like many “mean masters.” Sir Roger really loved and liked his servants from the core of his heart and that’s why, the servant’s love, affection, and respect towards him were genuine.

These lines reflect or delineate some magnificent and generous characteristic features of Sir Roger’s Character. The “lover part” or the servants of Sir Roger’s family enjoyed the freedom and worked with “certain cheerfulness” and devotion. They performed with such a wholehearted self-motivation as if they were the member of the family.