| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: you could have killed her easily in the compartment of the railway
train?"
"The windows of the compartment were open, my honoured friend, and
it was a fine warm evening for the season, because of which the
windows in the other compartment were also open. There was nothing
else I could do at that time then, except to offer Asta a cup of
tea when she felt a little faint upon leaving the train. I am a
physician and I know how to use the right drugs at the right time.
When Asta had taken the tea, she knew nothing more until she woke
up a day later in a room in the city."
"And the piece of paper with the threat on it? and the, revolver
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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 Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy: his voice above a whisper; he was now quietly taking a pinch of snuff,
yet there was something in his attitude, something in those pale, foxy
eyes, which seemed to freeze the blood in her veins, as would the
sight of some deadly hitherto unguessed peril.
"Is that a threat, citoyen?" she asked at last.
"Nay, fair lady," he said gallantly, "only an arrow shot into
the air."
He paused a moment, like a cat which sees a mouse running
heedlessly by, ready to spring, yet waiting with that feline sense of
enjoyment of mischief about to be done. Then he said quietly--
"Your brother, St. Just, is in peril."
The Scarlet Pimpernel |
