| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: voices were conspicuously hoarse.
When Madge entered the hotel parlor that
evening she found her uncle with guests and
among them was Burns Carroll. The presence
of the handsome giant affected Madge more
impellingly than ever before, yet in some
inexplicably different way. She found herself
trembling; she sensed a crisis in her feelings for this
man and it frightened her. She became conscious
suddenly that she had always been afraid of him.
Watching Carroll receive the congratulations of
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: And some of this would be true. The pit-manager was not an
educated man. He had been a boy along with Morel, so that,
while the two disliked each other, they more or less took each
other for granted. But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive
the butty these public-house sayings. Consequently, although Morel
was a good miner, sometimes earning as much as five pounds a week
when he married, he came gradually to have worse and worse stalls,
where the coal was thin, and hard to get, and unprofitable.
Also, in summer, the pits are slack. Often, on bright sunny
mornings, the men are seen trooping home again at ten, eleven, or twelve
o'clock. No empty trucks stand at the pit-mouth. The women on the
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