| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: though it had slipped from her pocket or grasp in her wild effort
to escape, would be lying behind her on the floor. They would see
that it was not the Sparrow; and there would be no question as to
where the money was gone, since the money had not been dropped.
There was the interval, of course, that must elapse between the
accident that knocked the shields from the wall and the time it
would take any of the inmates to reach the library, an interval
in which a thief might reasonably be expected to have had time
enough to get away without being seen; but the possibility that
she had not fully accomplished her ends when the accident occurred,
and that she had stayed to make frantic and desperate efforts to
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: eyes and voice.
"But you must tell me," she insisted. "It is justice you owe me."
The man wavered. "If I do . . ." he began. Then he ended with determination,
"I should never be able to forgive myself. No, I cannot tell you. Don't try to
compel me, Lute. You would be as sorry as I."
"If there is anything . . . if then are, obstacles . . . if this mystery does
really prevent . . . " She was speaking slowly, with long pauses, seeking the
more delicate ways of speech for the framing of her thought. "Chris, I do love
you. I love you as deeply as it is possible for any woman to love, I am sure.
If you were to say to me now 'Come,' I would go with you. I would follow
wherever you led. I would be your page, as in the days of old when ladies went
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