| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: soldier.
Seized at last with terror, I succeeded in dragging myself out of
the main avenue, and in concealing myself again among the
shrubbery, so as to watch the disappearance of the most cherished
objects, the smallest, the least striking, the least unknown
which had once belonged to me.
I then heard, in the distance, noises which came from my
apartments, which sounded now as if the house were empty, a loud
noise of shutting of doors. They were being slammed from top to
bottom of my dwelling, even the door which I had just opened
myself unconsciously, and which had closed of itself, when the
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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 Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: This was not answerable. There might have been a number of
reasons, all to Colonel Longstreth's credit, but Duane could
not understand. Longstreth had not appeared to see danger for
his daughter, even though she had been roughly handled, and had
advanced in front of a cocked gun. Duane probed deep into this
singular fact, and he brought to bear on the thing all his
knowledge and experience of violent Texas life. And he found
that the instant Colonel Longstreth had appeared on the scene
there was no further danger threatening his daughter. Why? That
likewise Duane could not answer. Then his rage, Duane
concluded, had been solely at the idea of HIS daughter being
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