| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: back to the coast in search of another outpost of civilization.
He had said nothing of this plan to Akut, for he knew that the old
ape would look with displeasure upon any suggestion that savored
of separation.
For a month the two wandered on, the boy learning rapidly
the laws of the jungle; his muscles adapting themselves to the
new mode of life that had been thrust upon them. The thews of
the sire had been transmitted to the son--it needed only the
hardening of use to develop them. The lad found that it came
quite naturally to him to swing through the trees. Even at great
heights he never felt the slightest dizziness, and when he had
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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 Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: never saw him fence."
"And I know nothing of the matter?" said the dependant--"a good
jest, I promise you! And though I never saw Ravenswood fence,
have I not been at Monsieur Sagoon's school, who was the first
maitre d'armes at Paris; and have I not been at Signor Poco's
at Florence, and Meinheer Durchstossen's at Vienna, and have I
not seen all their play?"
"I don't know whether you have or not," said Bucklaw; "but what
about it, though you had?"
"Only that I will be d--d if ever I saw French, Italian, or
High-Dutchman ever make foot, hand, and eye keep time half so
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