| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: thank God! Well, then, there was the machinery complete,
all ready to start. I took a handsome set of offices,
and furnished them up to the nines--but that I was able
to do pretty well on credit. You see, ready money was
getting short.
"And now came the biggest pull of all. There was
the press to be worked."
He spoke as if there were no other papers in London
but the financial journals.
"I didn't sleep much while that was being fixed up. You've got
no more idea of what the press means, Louisa, than you have
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from An Historical Mystery by Honore de Balzac: Georges, are to attack the Consular guard and the Consul hand to
hand."
"Well then, denounce them."
"For the last two months the Consul, his minister of police, the
prefect and Fouche, hold some of the clues of this vast conspiracy;
but they don't know its full extent, and at this particular moment
they are leaving nearly all the conspirators free, so as to discover
more about it."
"As to rights," said the notary, "the Bourbons have much more right to
conceive, plan, and execute a scheme against Bonaparte, than Bonaparte
had on the 18th Brumaire against the Republic, whose product he was.
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: find another customer.
Katy, elated by her first success, ran home as fast as she could
to procure some more white paper, of which she had a dozen sheets
that had been given her by a friend. It was in the back room, so
that she did not disturb her mother, choosing to astonish her
with the whole story of her success at noon.
CHAPTER VIII.
KATY SELLS OUT AND VISITS THE MAYOR.
Katy reached Washington Street once more. She had lost all her
timidity, and would not have feared to accost the governor, if
she had met him, and request him to purchase a cent's worth of
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Hoc proelio facto et prope ad internecionem gente ac nomine Nerviorum
redacto, maiores natu, quos una cum pueris mulieribusque in aestuaria ac
paludes coniectos dixeramus, hac pugna nuntiata, cum victoribus nihil
impeditum, victis nihil tutum arbitrarentur, omnium qui supererant
consensu legatos ad Caesarem miserunt seque ei dediderunt; et in
commemoranda civitatis calamitate ex DC ad tres senatores, ex hominum
milibus LX vix ad D, qui arma ferre possent, sese redactos esse dixerunt.
Quos Caesar, ut in miseros ac supplices usus misericordia videretur,
diligentissime conservavit suisque finibus atque oppidis uti iussit et
finitimis imperavit ut ab iniuria et maleficio se suosque prohiberent.
Atuatuci, de quibus supra diximus, cum omnibus copiis auxilio Nerviis
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