The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: to Prebaudet. Now the provinces, which look solely to results, care
little about the beauty or elegance of the means, provided they are
efficient.
CHAPTER V
AN OLD MAID'S HOUSEHOLD
To complete the picture of the internal habits and ways of this house,
it is necessary to group around Mademoiselle Cormon and the Abbe de
Sponde Jacquelin, Josette, and Mariette, the cook, who employed
themselves in providing for the comfort of uncle and niece.
Jacquelin, a man of forty, short, fat, ruddy, and brown, with a face
like a Breton sailor, had been in the service of the house for twenty-
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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 Riverman by Stewart Edward White: got to rustle some more supplies. That shipwreck of ours to-day
mighty near cleaned us out of some things. Lucky Charlie held his
head and locked in the bedding with those sweeps, or we'd have been
strapped."
"I didn't do it," grumbled Charlie. " It was him."
"Oh!" Orde congratulated Newmark. "Good work! I'm tickled to death
you belonged to that crew."
"That old mossback Reed was right on deck with his rope," remarked
Johnny Simms. "That was pretty decent of him."
"Old skunk!" growled North. "He lost us two days with his damn
nonsense. You let him off too easy, Jack."
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