| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: trying to dispose of it yourself?'
'There is no other path open to me,' said Gideon.
'It's not common sense, and I will not hear of it,' cried Mr
Bloomfield. 'I command you, positively, Gid, to desist from this
criminal interference.'
'Very well, then, I hand it over to you,' said Gideon, 'and you
can do what you like with the dead body.'
'God forbid!' ejaculated the president of the Radical Club, 'I'll
have nothing to do with it.'
'Then you must allow me to do the best I can,' returned his
nephew. 'Believe me, I have a distinct talent for this sort of
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: but the only thing that could have taken place was again their
masterly retreat. "How is he? where is he?" he asked of Mrs.
Moreen; but before she could speak these questions were answered by
the pressure round hid neck of a pair of arms, in shrunken sleeves,
which still were perfectly capable of an effusive young foreign
squeeze.
"Dreadfully ill - I don't see it!" the young man cried. And then
to Morgan: "Why on earth didn't you relieve me? Why didn't you
answer my letter?"
Mrs. Moreen declared that when she wrote he was very bad, and
Pemberton learned at the same time from the boy that he had
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