| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: speak, which is against parliamentary usage," said Achille Pigoult.
"I think it is not necessary to call the colonel to order," said the
chairman. "He is a father--"
Silence was re-established.
"We did not come here," cried Fromaget, "to say Amen to everything the
Messieurs Giguet, father and son, may wish--"
"No! no!" cried the assembly.
"Things are going badly," said Madame Marion to her cook in the
garden.
"Messieurs," resumed Achille, "I confine myself to asking my friend
Simon Giguet, categorically, what he expects to do for our interests."
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: Lord Morpeth had written to his mother that we were to be there and
would lunch with her. Castle Howard is twenty-five miles the other
side of York, which is itself twenty-five miles from Newby. But
what is fifty miles when one is under the wing of the Railway King
and can have a special engine at one's disposal. On arriving at the
Castle Howard station we found Lord Carlisle's carriage with four
horses and most venerable coachman waiting to receive us. We enter
the Park almost immediately, but it is about four miles to the
Castle, through many gates, which we had mounted footmen open for
us. Lady Carlisle received us in the most delightful manner. . . .
I was delighted to see Lord Morpeth's home and his mother, who
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