| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: the north. Twice or thrice I remember passing within view of
this forbidding residence; and seeing it always shuttered,
smokeless, and deserted, I remarked to my parents that some
day it would certainly be robbed.
'Ah, no,' said my father, 'never robbed;' and I observed a
strange conviction in his tone.
At last, and not long before the blow fell on my unhappy
family, I chanced to see the doctor's house in a new light.
My father was ill; my mother confined to his bedside; and I
was suffered to go, under the charge of our driver, to the
lonely house some twenty miles away, where our packages were
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: They turned round.
"All look the same way! Keep still! Now!"
And his hand opened; he held up to the light something that flashed, that
winked, that was a most lovely green.
"It's a nemeral," said Pip solemnly.
"Is it really, Pip?" Even Isabel was impressed.
The lovely green thing seemed to dance in Pip's fingers. Aunt Beryl had a
nemeral in a ring, but it was a very small one. This one was as big as a
star and far more beautiful.
Chapter 1.V.
As the morning lengthened whole parties appeared over the sand-hills and
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