| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: ruler of the world, dost remember the prayer I made and the
sacrifice I offered. The prayer was for triumph over my enemies
and the sacrifice a promise of the lives of half of those who in
that day dwelt upon the earth. Thou heardest the prayer, thou
didst bow thy head and accept the sacrifice. Yea, the prayer was
granted and the sacrifice was made, and in it were counted the
number of my foes.
"Then I slept. Through countless generations I slept on and at
my side was the one child of my body that was left to me. What
chanced to my spirit and to hers during that sleep, thou knowest
alone, but doubtless they went forth to work thy ends.
When the World Shook |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: result was a very faint note from the bell, but not so faint that
it escaped the ear of the anxious young wife, who had been pacing
up and down the floor of her charming living room for what seemed
to her ages.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Zoie cried through her tears to her neat
little maid servant, then reaching for her chatelaine, she daubed
her small nose and flushed cheeks with powder, after which she
nodded to Mary to open the door.
To Jimmy, the maid's pert "good-morning" seemed to be in very bad
taste and to properly reprove her he assumed a grave, dignified
air out of which he was promptly startled by Zoie's even more
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