| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: weeks hence. 'When Mrs. Innes comes out,' she added in explanation.
'Oh, yes, Valentine Drake is quite her property. My own idea is
that Kitty won't be in it.'
Where the road past Peliti's dips to the Mall Madeline met Horace
Innes. When she appeared in her rickshaw he dismounted, and gave
the reins to his syce. She saw in his eyes the look of a person who
has been all day lapsing into meditation and rousing himself from
it. 'You are very late,' she said as he came up.
'Oh, I'm not going; at least, you are just coming away, aren't you?
I think it is too late. I'll turn back with you.'
'Do,' she said, and looked at his capable, sensitive hand as he laid
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: advantage to either blade. Peter was a superb swordsman, and
parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a
feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defence, but his
shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the
steel home. Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not
quite so nimble in wrist play, forced him back by the weight of
his onset, hoping suddenly to end all with a favourite thrust,
taught him long ago by Barbecue at Rio; but to his astonishment he
found this thrust turned aside again and again. Then he sought to
close and give the quietus with his iron hook, which all this time
had been pawing the air; but Peter doubled under it and, lunging
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