| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy: Then commenced a period of weary waiting for Marguerite. She
knew that Sir Andrew--who would have to provide himself with clothes
befitting a lacquey--could not possibly reach Dover for at least a
couple of hours. He was a splendid horseman of course, and would make
light in such an emergency of the seventy odd miles between London and
Dover. He would, too, literally burn the ground beneath his horse's
hoofs, but he might not always get very good remounts, and in any
case, he could not have started from London until at least an hour
after she did.
She had seen nothing of Chauvelin on the road. Her coachman,
whom she questioned, had not seen anyone answering the description his
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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 Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: car in the capacity of chauffeur to somebody they had never seen.
And I wanted to burst out into hysterical laughter, swear, kick
Berry, and hide in the woods. Instead of which, I went up to
Jonah, who had gone back to the engine.
"What's the trouble, sir?"
Jonah put his head into the bonnet and exploded with silent
laughter. I put my head in, too, and swore at him in a whisper.
Then:
"One of the cylinders has been missing since Krainbach," he said.
"I think that's the seat of the trouble. But I've only just- "
"I think it's the carburettor, sir," said I, with a finger on the
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