| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: the lady has gone."
Muller had risen from his chair and walked over to the old writing
desk which stood beside one window. There were several sheets of
ordinary brown paper on it and sharp pointed pencil and also
something not usually found on writing desks, a piece of bread from
which some of the inside had been taken. "Everything as I expected
it" he said to himself. "The young lady made up the package in the
last few moments that she was left alone here."
He turned again to the old woman and commanded her to lead him down
stairs. "What sort of a carriage was it in which they took the lady
away?" he asked as they went down.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: There, the greater part of his existence had been passed.
Besides this, James Starr belonged to the Scottish Antiquarian Society,
of which he had been made president. He was also included
amongst the most active members of the Royal Institution; and the
Edinburgh Review frequently published clever articles signed by him.
He was in fact one of those practical men to whom is due the prosperity
of England. He held a high rank in the old capital of Scotland,
which not only from a physical but also from a moral point of view,
well deserves the name of the Northern Athens.
We know that the English have given to their vast extent of
coal-mines a very significant name. They very justly call them
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