| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: on the rail, talking to some woman and at the same time watching him, ready
for him. It struck him, as the gulf of water closed, how small she looked
on that huge ship. His heart was wrung with such a spasm that he could
have cried out. How little she looked to have come all that long way and
back by herself! Just like her, though. Just like Janey. She had the
courage of a--And now the crew had come forward and parted the passengers;
they had lowered the rails for the gangways.
The voices on shore and the voices on board flew to greet each other.
"All well?"
"All well."
"How's mother?"
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: the land, and the fate imposed upon the Canaanites, under a
special dispensation, being impiously and cruelly applied to
them.
Several Lowland officers, in the service of the Covenanters,
interceded for Dalgetty on this occasion, representing him as a
person whose skill would be useful in their army, and who would
be readily induced to change his service. But on this point they
found Sir Dugald unexpectedly obstinate. He had engaged with the
King for a certain term, and, till that was expired, his
principles would not permit any shadow of changing. The
Covenanters, again, understood no such nice distinction, and he
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