| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: them.
"Don't," whispered the girl. "Please don't, you frighten
me."
A week ago Billy Byrne would have laughed at such a plea.
Doubtless, too, he would have struck the girl in the face for
her resistance. He did neither now, which spoke volumes for
the change that was taking place within him, but neither did
he relax his hold upon her, or take his burning eyes from her
frightened ones.
Thus he strode through the turbulent, shallow river to
clamber up the bank onto the island. In his soul the battle still
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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 Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: by Benjamin Clymer's endorsement of his plan, Colonel McIntyre had
agreed to give him until Saturday night to locate the missing
securities; if he failed, then the colonel proposed placing the
affair in the hands of the authorities.
Kent's firm mouth settled into dogged lines at the thought; such a
procedure meant besmirching Jimmie Turnbull's name; let the public
get the slightest inkling that the bank cashier was suspected of
forgery and there would be the devil to pay. Kent was determined
to protect the honor of his dead friend, and to aid Helen McIntyre
in her investigation of his sudden death.
Jimmie Turnbull had been the soul of honor; that he had ever stooped
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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 Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: vessel. Indeed, none came away empty-handed, as everything
found upon the Bell Rock was considered valuable, being
connected with some interesting association. Several coins,
and numerous bits of shipwrecked iron, were picked up, of
almost every description; and, in particular, a marking-iron
lettered JAMES - a circumstance of which it was thought proper
to give notice to the public, as it might lead to the
knowledge of some unfortunate shipwreck, perhaps unheard of
till this simple occurrence led to the discovery. When the
rock began to be overflowed, the landing-master arranged the
crews of the respective boats, appointing twelve persons to
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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 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: strove by various arguments to banish my despair. Sometimes he
thought that I felt deeply the degradation of being obliged to
answer a charge of murder, and he endeavoured to prove to me the
futility of pride.
"Alas! My father," said I, "how little do you know me. Human beings,
their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded if such a wretch
as I felt pride. Justine, poor unhappy Justine, was as innocent as I,
and she suffered the same charge; she died for it; and I am the cause
of this--I murdered her. William, Justine, and Henry--they all died
by my hands."
My father had often, during my imprisonment, heard me make the same
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