| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression
of a saved angel.
The two poor little children who had been soaked through,
began to grow warm once more.
"Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?"
And pointing out the little one to his brother:--
"A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big
fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf."
"Gracious, replied the child, "we have no lodging."
"Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say `lodgings,' you say
`crib.'"
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: him while he eats his frugal fare and prolongs his noonday rest.
This form of fire does less work than any other in the world. Yet
it is far from being useless; and I, for one, should be sorry to
live without it. Its only use is to make a visible centre of
interest where there are two or three anglers eating their lunch
together, or to supply a kind of companionship to a lone fisherman.
It is kindled and burns for no other purpose than to give you the
sense of being at home and at ease. Why the fire should do this, I
cannot tell, but it does.
You may build your friendship-fire in almost any way that pleases
you; but this is the way in which you shall build it best. You have
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