| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Because I have found the right person,' said the Doctor firmly,
'and shall adopt him this afternoon.'
Anastasie looked at him out of a mist. 'You have lost your
reason,' she said; and there was a clang in her voice that seemed
to threaten trouble.
'Not so, my dear,' he replied; 'I retain its complete exercise. To
the proof: instead of attempting to cloak my inconsistency, I have,
by way of preparing you, thrown it into strong relief. You will
there, I think, recognise the philosopher who has the ecstasy to
call you wife. The fact is, I have been reckoning all this while
without an accident. I never thought to find a son of my own.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: guide told us that boats could go from there to our camp--but
"long way--all day."
This water was somewhat clearer than that we had left, but
we could not judge well from the margin. We skirted it for
another half hour or so, the ground growing firmer as we
advanced, and presently we turned the corner of a wooded
promontory and saw a quite different country--a sudden view
of mountains, steep and bare.
"One of those long easterly spurs," Terry said appraisingly.
"May be hundreds of miles from the range. They crop out like that."
Suddenly we left the lake and struck directly toward the
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