| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: Well, God knows I loved her, too, quite enough to share your thirst
for killing. For myself, the blue blood of La Tour d'Azyr would
hardly quench this thirst. I should like to add to it the dirty
fluid that flows in the veins of the unspeakable Binet."
For a second his emotion had been out of hand, and he revealed to
Leandre in the mordant tone of those last words something of the
fires that burned under his icy exterior. The young man caught
him by the hand.
"I knew you were acting," said he. "You feel - you feel as I do."
"Behold us, fellows in viciousness. I have betrayed myself, it
seems. Well, and what now? Do you want to see this pretty Marquis
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: without in either case attracting notice, while obscured by such
a companion as now leaned on his arm. The people in the street
started, rubbed their eyes, and either leaped aside from their
path, or stood as if transfixed to wood or marble in
astonishment.
"Do you see it?--do you see it?" cried one, with tremulous
eagerness. "It is the very same!"
"The same?" answered another, who had arrived in town only the
night before. "Who do you mean? I see only a sea-captain in his
shoregoing clothes, and a young lady in a foreign habit, with a
bunch of beautiful flowers in her hat. On my word, she is as fair
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