| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: lodgings; but his pen was not idle at Claygate; and it was here he
wrote (among other things) that review of 'FECUNDITY, FERTILITY,
STERILITY, AND ALLIED TOPICS,' which Dr. Matthews Duncan prefixed
by way of introduction to the second edition of the work. The mere
act of writing seems to cheer the vanity of the most incompetent;
but a correction accepted by Darwin, and a whole review borrowed
and reprinted by Matthews Duncan are compliments of a rare strain,
and to a man still unsuccessful must have been precious indeed.
There was yet a third of the same kind in store for him; and when
Munro himself owned that he had found instruction in the paper on
Lucretius, we may say that Fleeming had been crowned in the capitol
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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 Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: dinners." Johnson put down the glass he had raised to his lips
without replying.
The fact was, however, that I was like Johnson. I was soft from my
week's inaction, and I was pretty well done up. McKnight, who was
a well spring of vitality and high spirits, ordered a strange
concoction, made of nearly everything in the bar, and sent it over
to the detective, but Johnson refused it.
"I hate that kind of person," McKnight said pettishly. "Kind of a
fellow that thinks you're going to poison his dog if you offer him
a bone."
When we got back to the car line, with Johnson a draggled and
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