| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: if still dazed, stammering: "Has he gone?"
"The strange man? ... Yes, he went some time ago. But what
happened to you? Did he give you something to make you faint? Do
you think he was a thief?"
Mrs. Bernauer shook her head and murmured: "Oh, no, quite the
contrary." A remark which did not enlighten Franz particularly
as to the status of the man who had just left them. There was a
note of fear in the housekeepers s voice and she added hastily:
"Does any one besides ourselves know that he was here?"
No. Lizzie and the cook are in the kitchen talking about the
murder."
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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 Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: and even unkind. "It was my father," she repeated with a sigh,
"who welcomed him to this place, and encouraged, or at least
allowed, the intimacy between us. Should he not have remembered
this, and requited it with at least some moderate degree of
procrastination in the assertion of his own alleged rights? I
would have forfeited for him double the value of these lands,
which he pursues with an ardour that shows he has forgotten how
much I am implicated in the matter."
Lucy, however, could only murmur these things to herself,
unwilling to increase the prejudices against her lover
entertained by all around her, who exclaimed against the steps
The Bride of Lammermoor |
