| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: as best may suit your own notions."
"I should like it pretty much such a room as this kitchen,"
answered Tabitha. "It will never be like home to me till the
chimney-corner gets as black with smoke as this; and that won't
be these hundred years. How much do you mean to lay out on the
house, Mr. Peter?"
"What is that to the purpose?" exclaimed Peter, loftily. "Did not
my great-granduncle, Peter Goldthwaite, who died seventy years
ago, and whose namesake I am, leave treasure enough to build
twenty such?"
"I can't say but he did, Mr. Peter," said Tabitha, threading her
Twice Told Tales |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: suspended object that was stirred in passing. Once they heard
something fall on the floor, and roll from step to step; and
yet they themselves stood on the stairway, and nothing passed.
Then for some time there was silence, but they would have
persisted in their observations, had not Philip come in from
Mrs. Meredith's in the midst of it, so that the whole thing
turned into a frolic, and they sat on the stairs and told ghost
stories half the night.
XVII.
DISCOVERY.
THE next evening Kate and Philip went to a ball. As Hope was
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