| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: didst desire."
"But thou hadst thy knife, and would have stabbed him couldst
thou ha' done so," said Gascoyne.
"Thou liest!" said Blunt. "I had no knife." And then, without
giving time to answer, "Thou canst not deny that I met thee then
at thy bidding, canst thou, Falworth?"
"Nay," said Myles, "nor haply canst thou deny it either." And at
this covert reminder of his defeat Myles's followers laughed
scoffingly and Blunt bit his lip.
"Thou hast said it," said he. "Then sin. I met thee at thy
bidding, I dare to thee to meet me now at mine, and to fight this
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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 Mountains by Stewart Edward White: --care for trifling discomforts of the body? In these
intangible comforts of the eye was a great refreshment
of the spirit.
The following day we rode through the pine
forests growing on the ridges and hills and in the
elevated bowl-like hollows. These were not the so-
called "big trees,"--with those we had to do later,
as you shall see. They were merely sugar and yellow
pines, but never anywhere have I seen finer specimens.
They were planted with a grand sumptuousness
of space, and their trunks were from five to
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