| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: she said quietly.
"You may thank your stars I've come back to-night," he said,
looking up from under his dropped head, sulkily, trying to be impressive.
"Why, where should you have gone? You daren't even get your
parcel through the yard-end," she said.
He looked such a fool she was not even angry with him.
He continued to take his boots off and prepare for bed.
"I don't know what's in your blue handkerchief," she said.
"But if you leave it the children shall fetch it in the morning."
Whereupon he got up and went out of the house, returning presently
and crossing the kitchen with averted face, hurrying upstairs.
Sons and Lovers |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: paneling and its dainty breakfast table. But a slight shiver ran
through the commissioner's frame as he realised that some misfortune,
some crime even might be waiting for them on the other side of the
closed door. The bedroom door also was locked on the inside, and
after some moments of knocking and calling, Horn set the hatchet to
the framework just as the bell of the house-door pealed out.
With a cracking and tearing of wood the bedroom door fell open, and
in the same moment Muller and the physician passed through the
dining-room. Johann hurried into the bedroom to open the
window-shutters, and the others gathered in the doorway. A single
look showed each of the men that the bed was untouched, and they
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