| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: mended your shooting since you have been amongst the Indians of
the back settlements."
The General gladly accepted his friendly host's proposal in all
its points. After a morning of manly exercise, the company met
at dinner, where it was the delight of Lord Woodville to conduce
to the display of the high properties of his recovered friend, so
as to recommend him to his guests, most of whom were persons of
distinction. He led General Browne to speak of the scenes he had
witnessed; and as every word marked alike the brave officer and
the sensible man, who retained possession of his cool judgment
under the most imminent dangers, the company looked upon the
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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 Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: there were Kotoxen, the Lynx, and Misseppa, the Source, and Winstonah, the
War-cloud, chiefs of sagacity and renown. Three renegades completed the
circle; and these three traitors represented a power which had for ten years
left an awful, bloody trail over the country. Simon Girty, the so-called White
Indian, with his keen, authoritative face turned expectantly; Elliott, the
Tory deserter, from Fort Pitt, a wiry, spider-like little man; and last, the
gaunt and gaudily arrayed form of the demon of the frontier--Jim Girty.
The procession halted before this group, and two brawny braves pushed the
hunter forward. Simon Girty's face betrayed satisfaction; Elliott's shifty
eyes snapped, and the dark, repulsive face of the other Girty exhibited an
exultant joy. These desperadoes had feared this hunter.
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: put it.
So next morning Mick was more uneasy than ever; restless, devoured,
with his hands restless in his trousers pockets. Connie had not visited
him in the night...and he had not known where to find her.
Coquetry!...at his moment of triumph.
He went up to her sitting-room in the morning. She knew he would come.
And his restlessness was evident. He asked her about his play...did she
think it good? He had to hear it praised: that affected him with the
last thin thrill of passion beyond any sexual orgasm. And she praised
it rapturously. Yet all the while, at the bottom of her soul, she knew
it was nothing.
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: that he had found the Universal Panacea. According to many of the
country-people to whom the townsfolk talked of him, Cornelius was a
chimerical being, and many of them came into the town to look at his
house out of mere curiosity.
The young seigneur whom we left in front of that house looked about
him, first at the hotel de Poitiers, the home of his mistress, and
then at the evil house. The moonbeams were creeping round their
angles, and tinting with a mixture of light and shade the hollows and
reliefs of the carvings. The caprices of this white light gave a
sinister expression to both edifices; it seemed as if Nature herself
encouraged the superstitions that hung about the miser's dwelling. The
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