| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: and forget not the potion."
"I will give her nothing that comes from you," said Lady
Bothwell; "I have seen enough of your art already. Perhaps you
would poison us both to conceal your own necromancy. But we are
persons who want neither the means of making our wrongs known,
nor the assistance of friends to right them."
"You have had no wrongs from me, madam," said the adept. "You
sought one who is little grateful for such honour. He seeks no
one, and only gives responses to those who invite and call upon
him. After all, you have but learned a little sooner the evil
which you must still be doomed to endure. I hear your servant's
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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 Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: toward him; it could not be the wind; it marked the course of a creeping,
noiseless thing. It must be a panther crawling nearer and nearer.
Joe opened his lips to awaken his captors, but could not speak; it was as if
his heart had stopped beating. Twenty feet away the ferns were parted to
disclose a white, gleaming face, with eyes that seemingly glittered. Brawny
shoulders were upraised, and then a tall, powerful man stood revealed. Lightly
he stepped over the leaves into the little glade. He bent over the sleeping
Indians. Once, twice, three times a long blade swung high. One brave shuddered
another gave a sobbing gasp, and the third moved two fingers--thus they passed
from life to death.
"Wetzel!" cried Joe.
The Spirit of the Border |
