| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: me. I thought it a marvel that she did not see through you, when
you stood there before her, confounded, tongue-tied, a rogue
convicted. But I understand now. She knew you. She was in the
plot, and you were in the plot, and I, who thought that I was
opening her eyes, was the only one fooled. But it is my turn
now. You have played a bold part and a clever one,' he
continued, a sinister light in his little eyes,' and I
congratulate you. But it is at an end now, Monsieur. You took
us in finely with your talk of Monseigneur, and his commission
and your commission, and the rest. But I am not to be blinded
any longer--or bullied. You have arrested him, have you? You
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: snow flying from it, and farther on the same line with the
frozen washing, shirts and trousers, which still fluttered
desperately in the wind.
Again they drove into the street and again it grew quiet, warm,
and cheerful, and again they could see the manure-stained
street and hear voices and songs and the barking of a dog. It
was already so dark that there were lights in some of the
windows.
Half-way through the village Vasili Andreevich turned the horse
towards a large double-fronted brick house and stopped at the
porch.
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: all writ in the same handwriting, and letting any others for him
go on to the house.' And on the postman went.
No sooner had he turned the corner behind her back than she heard
her father meet and address the man. She had saved her letter by
two minutes. Her father audibly went through precisely the same
performance as she had just been guilty of herself.
This stealthy conduct of his was, to say the least, peculiar.
Given an impulsive inconsequent girl, neglected as to her inner
life by her only parent, and the following forces alive within
her; to determine a resultant:
First love acted upon by a deadly fear of separation from its
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: you'll be all right, you know." Seeing I was a trifle vague he
added: "I mean you won't be silly."
"Silly - about Vereker! Why what do I ever find him but awfully
clever?"
"Well, what's that but silly? What on earth does 'awfully clever'
mean? For God's sake try to get AT him. Don't let him suffer by
our arrangement. Speak of him, you know, if you can, as I should
have spoken of him."
I wondered an instant. "You mean as far and away the biggest of
the lot - that sort of thing?"
Corvick almost groaned. "Oh you know, I don't put them back to
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