| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: the professional separation was a gulf that fortune, by a stroke
quite remarkable, had spared her the necessity of contributing at
all publicly to bridge. When Mr. Cocker's young men stepped over
from behind the other counter to change a five-pound note--and Mr.
Cocker's situation, with the cream of the "Court Guide" and the
dearest furnished apartments, Simpkin's, Ladle's, Thrupp's, just
round the corner, was so select that his place was quite pervaded
by the crisp rustle of these emblems--she pushed out the sovereigns
as if the applicant were no more to her than one of the momentary,
the practically featureless, appearances in the great procession;
and this perhaps all the more from the very fact of the connexion
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: it was not possible to get
back up the pear-tree, with a
load of vegetables. He led
the way boldly towards the
other end of the garden. They
went along a little walk on
planks, under a sunny red-
brick wall.
The mice sat on their door-
steps cracking cherry-stones,
they winked at Peter Rabbit
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