| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: would like to ascend the tower. "At once," was the answer.
The sexton took a bunch of keys and told the strangers to follow
him. A few moments later Muller and his companion stood in the
tiny belfry room of the slender spire. The fat sexton, to his own
great satisfaction, had yielded to their request not to undertake
the steep ascent. The cloudless sky lay crystal clear over the
still sleeping city and the wide spread snow-covered fields which
lay close at hand, beyond the church. On the one side were gardens
and the low rambling buildings of the convent, and on the other
were huddled high-piled dwellings of poverty.
Muller looked out of each of the four windows in turn. He spent
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: have refused to employ me, or at least I should have been
compelled to accept payment, which I, of course, do not need."
Miss Wilson affected surprise. "I do not understand you," she
said.
"Not altogether," he said smiling. "But you understand that I am
what is called a gentleman."
"No. The gentlemen with whom I am conversant do not dress as you
dress, nor speak as you speak, nor act as you act."
He looked at her, and her countenance confirmed the hostility of
her tone. He instantly relapsed into an aggravated phase of
Smilash.
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