| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson: Arethusa, with a slight change of voice, admitted he had none, he
was informed (politely enough) that he must appear before the
Commissary.
The Commissary sat at a table in his bedroom, stripped to the shirt
and trousers, but still copiously perspiring; and when he turned
upon the prisoner a large meaningless countenance, that was (like
Bardolph's) "all whelks and bubuckles," the dullest might have been
prepared for grief. Here was a stupid man, sleepy with the heat
and fretful at the interruption, whom neither appeal nor argument
could reach.
THE COMMISSARY. You have no papers?
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: me useful."
"Do you threaten, sir?" cried Ruth.
"Threaten?" quoth he. He turned up his eyes and showed the whites of
them. "Is it to threaten to promise you my protection; to show you
how I can serve you? - than which I ask no sweeter boon of heaven.
A word from me, and Richard need fear nothing."
"He need fear nothing without that word," said Ruth disdainfully. "Such
service as he did Lord Feversham the other night..."
"Is soon forgotten," Blake cut in adroitly. "Indeed, `twill be most
convenient to his lordship to forget it. Think you he would care to
have it known that `twas to such a chance he owes the preservation of
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