| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And you stoop a little in the shoulder!
HUBERT.
Alack! I am a poor old sinner,
And, like these towers, begin to moulder;
And you have been absent many a year!
WALTER.
How is the Prince?
HUBERT.
He is not here;
He has been ill: and now has fled.
WALTER.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: "But doesn't this suit worry you? Why have you never spoken to
me about it?"
He answered both questions at once: "I didn't speak of it at
first because it DID worry me--annoyed me, rather. But it's all
ancient history now. Your correspondent must have got hold of a
back number of the 'Sentinel.'"
She felt a quick thrill of relief. "You mean it's over? He's
lost his case?"
There was a just perceptible delay in Boyne's reply. "The suit's
been withdrawn--that's all."
But she persisted, as if to exonerate herself from the inward
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