| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to the north, and swinging in a wide circle, he had re-
turned to within a short distance of the clearing where he
had left Bertha Kircher and the young lieutenant. He had spent
the night in a large tree that overhung the river only a short
distance from the clearing, and now in the early morning
hours he was crouching at the water's edge waiting for an
opportunity to capture Pisah, the fish, thinking that he would
take it back with him to the hut where the girl could cook it
for herself and her companion.
Motionless as a bronze statue was the wily ape-man, for
well he knew how wary is Pisah, the fish. The slightest move-
 Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: I thought about them for a whole year afterwards, and kept on hoping
that they would come back. I would have given two years of my life
only to see that traveler again, he looked so nice. Until I knew M.
Benassis these were the greatest events of my life. Although my
mistress turned me away for trying on that horrid ball-dress of hers,
I was sorry for her, and I have forgiven her, for candidly, if you
will give me leave to say so, I thought myself the better woman of the
two, countess though she was."
"Well," said Genestas, after a moment's pause, "you see that
Providence has kept a friendly eye on you, you are in clover here."
At these words La Fosseuse looked at Benassis with eyes full of
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