| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The party in the camp, emboldened by familiarity, wandered
farther and yet farther into the jungle in search of nuts
and fruit.
Scarcely a day passed that did not find Professor Porter
straying in his preoccupied indifference toward the jaws of
death. Mr. Samuel T. Philander, never what one might call
robust, was worn to the shadow of a shadow through the
ceaseless worry and mental distraction resultant from his
Herculean efforts to safeguard the professor.
A month passed. Tarzan had finally determined to visit the
camp by daylight.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: countess had not the cruel courage to reproach the young man for the
boldness to which they owed this perilous and only instant of
happiness.
"Will you fly with me into the adjoining States?" said the young man,
eagerly. "Two English horses are awaiting us close by, able to do
thirty leagues at a stretch."
"Ah!" she cried, softly, "in what corner of the world could you hide a
daughter of King Louis XI.?"
"True," replied the young man, silenced by a difficulty he had not
foreseen.
"Why did you tear me from my husband?" she asked in a sort of terror.
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