| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: between Burrough and Bideford. When they arrived on the quay the
question answered itself.
As they came down Bridgeland Street (where afterwards the tobacco
warehouses for the Virginia trade used to stand, but which then was
but a row of rope-walks and sailmakers' shops), they could see the
strange ship already at anchor in the river. They had just reached
the lower end of the street, when round the corner swept a great
mob, sailors, women, 'prentices, hurrahing, questioning, weeping,
laughing: Mrs. Leigh stopped; and behold, they stopped also.
"Here she is!" shouted some one; "here's his mother!"
"His mother? Not their mother!" said Mrs. Leigh to herself, and
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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 Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Twice," said Tarzan. "Once in the left shoulder, and again
in the left side--both flesh wounds, I think." But the doctor
insisted upon stretching him upon the sward, and tinkering
with him until the wounds were cleansed and the flow of
blood checked.
One result of the duel was that they all rode back to Paris
together in D'Arnot's car, the best of friends. De Coude
was so relieved to have had this double assurance of his
wife's loyalty that he felt no rancor at all toward Tarzan.
It is true that the latter had assumed much more of the fault
than was rightly his, but if he lied a little he may be
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