| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: all his likely wants, he kissed me again.
'"Here's a friend that sticketh closer than a brother!" he says.
"Mistress," he says to my Aunt, "all you foretold on me was true.
I've opened that road from the East to the West, and I've buried
my heart beside it. "
'"I know," she says. "That's why I be come."
'"But ye never foretold this"; he points to both they
great fleets.
'"This don't seem to me to make much odds compared to
what happens to a man," she says. "Do it?"
'"Certain sure a man forgets to remember when he's proper
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: did, it may take him to heaven yet!'
At this I became aware of his eyes set upon me with a considering
look, and brought up sharply.
'Well, well,' said he. 'Good night to you, Champdivers. Come to
me at breakfast-time to-morrow, and we'll talk of other subjects.'
I fully admit the man's conduct was not bad: in writing it down so
long after the events I can even see that it was good.
CHAPTER IV - ST. IVES GETS A BUNDLE OF BANK NOTES
I WAS surprised one morning, shortly after, to find myself the
object of marked consideration by a civilian and a stranger. This
was a man of the middle age; he had a face of a mulberry colour,
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