| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: tree all the years I've navigated this river, an' it seems natural like to me
thet it now droops dyin', fer it shades the grave of as young, an' sweet, an'
purty a lass as yerself, Miss Nell. Rivermen called this island George's
Island, 'cause Washington onct camped here; but of late years the name's got
changed, an' the men say suthin' like this: 'We'll try an' make Milly's birch
afore sundown,' jest as Bill and me hev done to-day. Some years agone I was
comin' up from Fort Henry, an' had on board my slow old scow a lass named
Milly--we never learned her other name. She come to me at the fort, an' tells
as how her folks hed been killed by Injuns, an' she wanted to git back to Pitt
to meet her sweetheart. I was ag'in her comin' all along, an' fust off I said
'No." But when I seen tears in her blue eyes, an' she puts her little hand on
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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 Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: merit such suspicions. He is a tall, thin, gloomy-looking man,
apparently between thirty and forty, and of a somewhat sickly,
careworn aspect.
At last, Mr. Huntingdon's light phaeton came bowling merrily up the
lawn. I had but a transient glimpse of him: for the moment it
stopped, he sprang out over the side on to the portico steps, and
disappeared into the house.
I now submitted to be dressed for dinner - a duty which Rachel had
been urging upon me for the last twenty minutes; and when that
important business was completed, I repaired to the drawing-room,
where I found Mr. and Miss Wilmot and Milicent Hargrave already
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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 The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: silenced the passion of his hatred. One cried out to him, "The
property of your wife cannot belong to the house of Herouville except
through a male child." The other pointed to a dying countess and her
fortune claimed by the collateral heirs of the Saint-Savins. Both
advised him to leave to nature the extinction of that hated child, and
to wait the birth of a second son who might be healthy and vigorous
before getting rid of his wife and first-born. He saw neither wife nor
child; he saw the estates only, and hatred was softened by ambition.
The mother, who knew his nature, was even more surprised than the
bonesetter, and she still retained her instinctive fears, showing them
at times openly, for the courage of mothers seemed suddenly to have
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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 The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: visiting my island?"
The officer hesitated a moment before answering, his
eyes running about over the assembly as though in
search of someone.
"Well, Professor Maxon, to be quite frank," he said at
length, "we learned at Singapore the personnel of your party,
which included a former naval officer whom we have been seeking
for many years. We came to your island to arrest this man--
I refer to Doctor Carl von Horn."
When the lieutenant learned of the recent disappearance
of the man he sought, he expressed his determination
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