| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: hers that she held me. She had asked me to go from her, and again
in the night time and with tears she had asked me to go.
"At last it was the sense of her that roused me from my mood.
I turned upon her suddenly and challenged her to race down the
mountain slopes. 'No,' she said, as if I had jarred with her
gravity, but I was resolved to end that gravity, and make her
run--no one can be very gray and sad who is out of breath--and when
she stumbled I ran with my hand beneath her arm. We ran down past
a couple of men, who turned back staring in astonishment at my
behaviour--they must have recognised my face. And half way down
the slope came a tumult in the air, clang-clank, clang-clank, and
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: to be round pink little hands again, now--clasped in front of her
and wondered.
``See, Mama! Look, Mama!'' cried the little girl.
``Why does she say: Mama?'' asked Bessie Bell, because she just
wondered, and wondered--and she did not know.
``Because it is her Mama,'' said a child who had just brought two
more rocks to put on the chimney.
``Oh,'' said Bessie Bell.
That lady who was the little girl's Mama looked much as all the
ladies looked.
``Are all Ladies Mamas?'' asked Bessie Bell.
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