| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: keep good watch."
"Hillo!" shouted one in a few minutes, "here's fresh fish enough to
feed us all round. I suppose that young cat-a-mountain left it
behind her in her hurry. I wish she had left her golden chains and
ouches into the bargain."
"Well," said another, " we'll take it as fair payment, for having
made us drop down the current again to let her ladyship pass."
"Leave that fish alone," said Amyas; "it is none of yours."
"Why, sir!" quoth the finder in a tone of sulky deprecation.
"If we are to make good friends with the heathens, we had better
not begin by stealing their goods. There are plenty more fish in
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: of her acquaintance. I am an old woman, but I am not too old, thank Heaven,
to be shocked!"
"But don't they all do these things--the young girls in America?"
Winterbourne inquired.
Mrs. Costello stared a moment. "I should like to see my granddaughters
do them!" she declared grimly.
This seemed to throw some light upon the matter, for Winterbourne remembered
to have heard that his pretty cousins in New York were "tremendous flirts."
If, therefore, Miss Daisy Miller exceeded the liberal margin allowed to
these young ladies, it was probable that anything might be expected of her.
Winterbourne was impatient to see her again, and he was vexed with himself
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