Read these lines: "Manuel had one besetting sin. He loved to play Chinese lottery. Also, in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness, faith in a system. For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener's helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny." What do the quoted lines suggest about Manuel?

1. 1. The quoted lines name gambling as Manuel's besetting sin and faith in a system as his weakness. 2. 2. They then state that playing a system requires money. 3. 3. They add that a gardener's helper earns no more than his wife and many children already need. 4. 4. Money demanded by gambling and wages that cannot stretch leaves him short, so he needed money he did not have. 5. 5. Winning would remove the shortfall, and careful saving contradicts the gambling, so those options fail. _Source: The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)_