| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: frontier."
"But have not the troops of the provinces of Amoor and
Irkutsk, as those also of the Trans-Balkan territory, received
orders to march immediately upon Irkutsk?"
"The orders were transmitted by the last telegram we
were able to send beyond Lake Baikal."
"And the governments of Yeniseisk, Omsk, Semipola-
tinsk, and Tobolsk -- are we still in direct communication
with them as before the insurrection?"
"Yes, sire; our dispatches have reached them, and we
are assured at the present moment that the Tartars have not
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: Dartmouth, who vouches for truth of this statement, "the Duke of
Richmond's clandestine marriage, before he had given an answer,
made the king suspect he had revealed the secret to Clarendon,
whose creature Sheldon was known to be; and this was the true
secret of Clarendon's disgrace." For the king, believing the
chancellor had aided the duke in his secret marriage, in order to
prevent his majesty's union with Miss Stuart, and the presumable
exclusion of the Duke and Duchess of York and their children from
the throne, never forgave him.
Though the subject of the royal divorce was no longer mentioned,
the disturbances springing from it were far from ended; for the
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