| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: expression, and shrank up like a cat that has been discovered
looking at the milk.
Then a wicked impulse took her.
"Didn't say an old word, George," she insisted, looking me full
in the eye.
I smiled. "You're a dear," I said, "not to," as Marion came
lowering into the room to welcome her. But I felt extraordinarily
like a traitor--to the India-rubber plant, I suppose--for all
that nothing had been said...
"Your aunt makes Game of people," was Marion's verdict, and,
open-mindedly: "I suppose it's all right... for her."
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: "Met." xi. 102 foll.
What construction some will put upon the story I am well aware, but
for myself I am persuaded that many more people can master their
enemeis than the foes we speak of.[8] Doubtless such incidents when
known to but few may well be discredited by many, but here we are in
the region of establishing facts, seeing that the more illustrious a
man is the less can his every act escape notice. As to Agesilaus no
eye-witness has ever reported any unworthy behaviour, nor, had he
invented it, would his tale have found credence, since it was not the
habit of the king, when abroad, to lodge apart in private houses. He
always lay up in some sacred place, where behaviour of the sort was
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