The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: of the skin, nor dim the wonderful eyes of this modern Delilah.
For it was she!
"So I came in time" I said grimly, and turned the key in the lock.
"Oh!" she panted at that, and stood facing me, leaning back
with her jewel-laden hands clutching the desk edge.
"Give me whatever you have removed from here," I said sternly,
"and then prepare to accompany me."
She took a step forward, her eyes wide with fear, her lips parted.
"I have taken nothing," she said. her breast was heaving tumultuously.
"Oh, let me go! Please, let me go!" And impulsively she threw
herself forward, pressing clasped hands against my shoulder and looking
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: in the starlight from the window of a deserted house at Upper
Halliford, whither we had returned. From there we could
see the searchlights on Richmond Hill and Kingston Hill
going to and fro, and about eleven the windows rattled, and
we heard the sound of the huge siege guns that had been put
in position there. These continued intermittently for the space
of a quarter of an hour, sending chance shots at the invisible
Martians at Hampton and Ditton, and then the pale beams
of the electric light vanished, and were replaced by a bright
red glow.
Then the fourth cylinder fell--a brilliant green meteor--as
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