| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: farther seaward; it was mid-afternoon or after, and the day was
coming to an end.
"Yes, they're all makin' towards the shore,--the small craft
an' the lobster smacks an' all," said my companion. "We must spend
a little time with mother now, just to have our tea, an' then put
for home."
"No matter if we lose the wind at sundown; I can row in with
Johnny," said I; and Mrs. Todd nodded reassuringly and kept to her
steady plod, not quickening her gait even when we saw William come
round the corner of the house as if to look for us, and wave his
hand and disappear.
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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 Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: eleven o'clock.
Then she went to bed, preferring not to call Brookes, with the
somewhat foolish feeling of being unable to account for her evening.
Her last reflection before she slept shaped itself in her mind in
definite words.
'There are no children,' it ran, 'and her health has always been
good, he says. She must have left him after that first six months
in Lucknow, because of a natural antipathy to the country--and when
she condescended to come out again for a winter he met the different
lady he thinks about. With little hard lines around the mouth and
common conventional habits of thought, full of subservience to his
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