| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: and the top button on each waist indicated by its color which country the
wearer came from. The uniforms were Jaunty and becoming, and quite effective
when massed together.
Tip thought this strange Army bore no weapons
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whatever; but in this he was wrong. For each girl had stuck through the knot
of her back hair two long, glittering knitting-needles.
General Jinjur immediately mounted the stump of a tree and addressed her
army.
"Friends, fellow-citizens, and girls!" she said; "we are about to begin our
great Revolt against the men of Oz! We march to conquer the Emerald City --
The Marvelous Land of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: lay volcanoes! Bianchon and Rastignac were right; when a man can join
the grandeurs of the ideal and the enjoyments of human passion in
loving a woman of perfect manners, of intellect, of delicacy, it must
be happiness beyond words."
So thinking, he sounded the love that was in him and found it
infinite.
CHAPTER V
A TRIAL OF FAITH
The next day, about two in the afternoon, Madame d'Espard, who had
seen and heard nothing of the princess for more than a month, went to
see her under the impulse of extreme curiosity. Nothing was ever more
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