| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: The man took no heed, but went on lashing.
"Stop! pray stop!" said Joe. "I'll help you to lighten the cart;
they can't move it now."
"Mind your own business, you impudent young rascal, and I'll mind mine!"
The man was in a towering passion and the worse for drink,
and laid on the whip again. Joe turned my head, and the next moment
we were going at a round gallop toward the house of the master brick-maker.
I cannot say if John would have approved of our pace, but Joe and I
were both of one mind, and so angry that we could not have gone slower.
The house stood close by the roadside. Joe knocked at the door,
and shouted, "Halloo! Is Mr. Clay at home?" The door was opened,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: that he would build up a business to his chin, which he carried
quite in the air. This could only be a question of time; he would
have all Piccadilly in the pen behind his ear. That was a merit in
itself for a girl who had known what she had known. There were
hours at which she even found him good-looking, though, frankly
there could be no crown for her effort to imagine on the part of
the tailor or the barber some such treatment of his appearance as
would make him resemble even remotely a man of the world. His very
beauty was the beauty of a grocer, and the finest future would
offer it none too much room consistently to develop. She had
engaged herself in short to the perfection of a type, and almost
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