| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Mademoiselle to put on her rubers.
JANUARY 2ND. Today I wrote my French theme, beginning, "Les hommes
songent moins a leur AME QU A leur CORPS. Mademoiselle sent for me
and objected, saying that it was not a theme for a young girl, and
that I must write a new one, on the subject of pears. How is one to
develope in this atmosphere?
Some of the girls are coming back. They stragle in, and put the
favers they got at Cotillions on the dresser, and their holaday
gifts, and each one relates some amorus experience while at home.
Dear dairy, is there somthing wrong with me, that Love has passed
me by? I have had offers of Devotion but none that apealed to me,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: the heart.
He relieved himself in verse; but for such a smarting affront
manuscript poetry was insufficient to console him. He must
find a more powerful remedy in good flesh and blood, and
after this discomfiture, set forth again at once upon his
voyage of discovery in quest of love. It is perhaps one of
the most touching things in human nature, as it is a
commonplace of psychology, that when a man has just lost hope
or confidence in one love, he is then most eager to find and
lean upon another. The universe could not be yet exhausted;
there must be hope and love waiting for him somewhere; and
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