| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: the ball of paper on the floor and his expression changed. He
walked over and picked it up, smoothing it out on the palm of his
hand.
After a minute he looked up at me.
"I haven't been to the shelter-house to-day. They are all
right?"
"They're nervous. With everybody walking these days they daren't
venture a nose out of doors."
He was still holding the clipping.
"And--Miss Jennings!" he said. "She--I think she looks better."
"Her father's in a better humor for one thing--says Abraham
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: with university work, but his spare hours were fully dedicated to
the arts under the eye of a beloved task-mistress. He worked hard
and well in the art school, where he obtained a silver medal 'for a
couple of legs the size of life drawn from one of Raphael's
cartoons.' His holidays were spent in sketching; his evenings,
when they were free, at the theatre. Here at the opera he
discovered besides a taste for a new art, the art of music; and it
was, he wrote, 'as if he had found out a heaven on earth.' 'I am
so anxious that whatever he professes to know, he should really
perfectly possess,' his mother wrote, 'that I spare no pains';
neither to him nor to myself, she might have added. And so when he
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