| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: more concrete and intimate form; for at sight of her he was
immediately on his feet again, the florid and dominant Rosedale
of Mattie Gormer's drawing-room.
It was no surprise to Lily to find that he had been selected as
her only fellow-guest. Though she and her hostess had not met
since the latter's tentative discussion of her future, Lily knew
that the acuteness which enabled Mrs. Fisher to lay a safe and
pleasant course through a world of antagonistic forces was not
infrequently exercised for the benefit of her friends. It was, in
fact, characteristic of Carry that, while she actively gleaned
her own stores from the fields of affluence, her real sympathies
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: aye, and that the turning of one stone might have caused that it had run on
and on, and mingled its song with the sea's song for ever.'"
The stranger was silent for a while.
Then he said, "Should he answer you and say, 'What do I care! What are
coves and mountain tops to me? Gold is real, and the power to crush men
within my hand'; tell him no further.
"But if by some chance he should listen, then, say this one thing to him,
clearly in the ear, that he may not fail to hear it: 'The morning may
break grey, and the midday be dark and stormy; but the glory of the
evening's sunset may wash out for ever the remembrance of the morning's
dullness, and the darkness of the noon. So that all men shall say, 'Ah,
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