| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: of greeting to some of the lesser nobles attendant upon the Earl
whom he knew.
In that little time he was within a few paces of Myles, who stood
motionless as a statue, holding the bascinet and the bridle-rein
of Lord George's horse.
What Myles saw was a plain, rather stout man, with a face fat,
smooth, and waxy, with pale-blue eyes, and baggy in the lids;
clean shaven, except for a mustache and tuft covering lips and
chin. Somehow he felt a deep disappointment. He had expected to
see something lion-like, something regal, and, after all, the
great King Henry was commonplace, fat, unwholesome-looking. It
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: was the property of Doctor Allender, and Tolly Allender, the son
of the doctor, had once made an effort to recapture MR. DIXON,
but had failed for want of evidence to support his claim.
Jake told me the circumstances of this attempt, and how narrowly
he escaped being sent back to slavery and torture. He told me that New York
was then full of Southerners returning from the Northern watering-places;
that the colored people of New York were not to be trusted; that there were
hired men of my own color who would betray me for a few dollars;
that there were hired men ever on the lookout for fugitives;
that I must trust no man with my secret; that I must not think
of going either upon the wharves or into any colored boarding-house,
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