| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: last she would ever make him. So she picked and chose and
rejected, and chose again, and often paused in sad revery, and
began again, till at length she filled the pack.
It was about sunset, and she and Fay had finished supper and were
sitting in the court, when Venters's quick steps rang on the
stones. She scarcely knew him, for he had changed the tattered
garments, and she missed the dark beard and long hair. Still he
was not the Venters of old. As he came up the steps she felt
herself pointing to the pack, and heard herself speaking words
that were meaningless to her. He said good-by; he kissed her,
released her, and turned away. His tall figure blurred in her
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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 Reef by Edith Wharton: they were forced on him by the example of her valiant
common-sense. If he had cut a sorry figure in the business,
he owed it to her not to close his eyes to the fact any
longer...
But when he opened them, what did he see? The situation,
detestable at best, would yet have been relatively simple if
protecting Sophy Viner had been the only duty involved in
it. The fact that that duty was paramount did not do away
with the contingent obligations. It was Darrow's instinct,
in difficult moments, to go straight to the bottom of the
difficulty; but he had never before had to take so dark a
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