| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: this time; I saw him - just as I did the others."
"Shepherd, the inn-keeper wants to see you, there's something the
matter with his cow." cried a young man, coming from the other
direction and pushing in at the door past Margit, who stood there
staring up the road.
Janci was so deep in his own thoughts that he apparently did not
hear the boy's words. At all events he did not answer them, but
himself asked an unexpected question - a question that was not
addressed to the others in the room, but to something out and
beyond them. It was a strange question and it came from the lips
of a man whose mind was not with his body at that moment - whose
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: Tige has been shot on his way home."
This called the attention to the dog, which had been momentarily forgotten.
His head rolled from Betty's knee; a quiver shook his frame; he struggled to
rise to his feet, but his strength was too far spent; he crawled close to
Betty's feet; his eyes looked up at her with almost human affection; then they
closed, and he lay still. Tige was dead.
"It is all over, Betty. Tige will romp no more. He will never be forgotten,
for he was faithful to the end. Jonathan, tell the Major of Wetzel's warning,
and both of you go back to your posts on the river. Silas, send Capt. Boggs to
me."
An hour after the death of Tige the settlers were waiting for the ring of the
Betty Zane |
