| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: charitable and would gladly have helped you if you were in need.
Beside this, you were entitled to a portion of your father's estate.
It is almost thirty thousand guldens, as Mr. Fellner tells me. Why
did you not take that?"
"Fellner did not know that I had already received twenty thousand
of this when my father turned me out. He probably would have heard
of it later, for Berner was the witness. I did not care for the
remaining ten thousand because I would have the entire fortune after
Asta's death. I would have seen the official notice and the call
for heirs in Australia, and would have written from there, announcing
that I was still alive. If you had come several days later I should
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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 Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: "I trust that I know what is becoming to a woman
of my years, thank you. Miss Waters," Jane had
replied, and the milliner had meekly taken her order.
After Miss Carew had left, the milliner told her
girls that she had never seen a woman so perfectly
crazy to look her age as Miss Carew. "And she a
pretty woman, too," said the milliner; "as straight
as an arrer, and slim, and with all that hair, scarcely
turned at all."
Miss Carew, with all her haste to assume years,
remained a pretty woman, softly slim, with an abun-
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