| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: all we wanted of you and that other beast. He's dead, an' if
I don't miss my guess a whole lot you'll be dead too before long.
You two treated us like dogs, and if you think we got any love
for you you better forget it."
"You mean to say that you're going to turn against me?"
demanded Paulvitch.
The other nodded, and then after a momentary pause,
during which an idea seemed to have occurred to him,
he spoke again.
"Unless," he said, "you can make it worth my while to
let you go before the Englishman finds you here."
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: make by her excessive love for me. Still, however, I could not
help thinking she had gone rather too far. I reproached her with
what I called her indiscretion. She told me that my rival, after
having besieged her for several days in the Bois de Boulogne, and
having made her comprehend his object by signs and grimaces, had
actually made an open declaration of love; informing her at the
same time of his name and all his titles, by means of a letter,
which he had sent through the hands of the coachman who drove her
and her companions; that he had promised her, on the other side
of the Alps, a brilliant fortune and eternal adoration; that she
returned to Chaillot, with the intention of relating to me the
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: the sun, and me, were in proper conjunction. Then he flashed, and only then.
But the flashes were more brilliant than the rainbow--purest blue, most
delicate violet, brightest yellow, and all the intermediary shades, with the
scintillant brilliancy of the diamond, dazzling, blinding, iridescent.
But in the midst of our play I felt a sudden cold chill, reminding me of deep
mines and gloomy crypts, such a chill as I had experienced that very morning.
The next moment, close to the net, I saw a ball rebound in mid-air and empty
space, and at the same instant, a score of feet away, Paul Tichlorne emitted a
rainbow flash. It could not be he from whom the ball had rebounded, and with
sickening dread I realized that Lloyd Inwood had come upon the scene. To make
sure, I looked for his shadow, and there it was, a shapeless blotch the girth
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: opening into the ways fell upon her downcast face.
The lady in trouble about the Eadhamite saw the
change in his expression, and grasped her opportunity
to escape. Would you care to know that girl, Sire?"
she asked boldly. "She is Helen Wotton--a niece of
Ostrog's. She knows a great many serious things.
She is one of the most serious persons alive. I am
sure you will like her."
In another moment Graham was talking to the girl,
and the bright-eyed lady had fluttered away.
"I remember you quite well," said Graham. "You
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