| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: she has turned off there." I knew this common very well;
it was for the most part very uneven ground, covered with heather
and dark-green furze bushes, with here and there a scrubby old thorn-tree;
there were also open spaces of fine short grass, with ant-hills
and mole-turns everywhere; the worst place I ever knew for a headlong gallop.
We had hardly turned on the common, when we caught sight again
of the green habit flying on before us. My lady's hat was gone,
and her long brown hair was streaming behind her. Her head and body
were thrown back, as if she were pulling with all her remaining strength,
and as if that strength were nearly exhausted. It was clear
that the roughness of the ground had very much lessened Lizzie's speed,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: come when a rising against them might be carried to a successful
issue.
This was the prayer of those who sent the envoys, that I should
raise a force of Otomies and travel with it across the country to
Yucatan, and there with others who would be gathered, wait a
favourable opportunity to throw myself upon the Spaniards when they
were entangled in the forests and swamps, putting them to the sword
and releasing Guatemoc. Such was the first purpose of the plot,
though it had many others of which it is useless to speak, seeing
that they came to nothing.
When the message had been delivered I shook my head sadly, for I
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