| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: criminal I am.'
'Don't make too much of it,' she said, simply. 'I have a
presentiment--'
'I'll tell you,' Innes said, slowly; 'I won't niggle about it. The
people of this place--idiots!--are unable to believe that a man and
a woman can be to each other what we are.'
'Yes?' said Madeline. She paused beside the parapet and looked down
at the indistinct little fields below, and the blurred masses of
white wild roses waving midway against the precipice.
'They can not understand that there can be any higher plane of
intercourse between us than the one they know. They won't see--they
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: The time of the year when I was accustomed to join my father and
sister had now arrived, and I did not go; both of them wrote to
me frequently, begging me to come. To these letters I replied as
best I could, always repeating that I was quite well and that I
was not in need of money, two things which, I thought, would
console my father for my delay in paying him my annual visit.
Just then, one fine day in summer, Marguerite was awakened by the
sunlight pouring into her room, and, jumping out of bed, asked me
if I would take her into the country for the whole day.
We sent for Prudence, and all three set off, after Marguerite had
given Nanine orders to tell the duke that she had taken advantage
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