| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the truth!"
"Since you laid me low in the hut of the good priest
I have served you well, Norman of Torn; you should
know my loyalty by this time and that never have I
lied to you. No man of yours has done this thing, nor is
it the first time that vile scoundrels have placed your
mark upon their dead that they might thus escape sus-
picion, themselves."
"Henry de Montfort," said Norman of Torn, turning
to his visitor, "we of Torn bear no savory name, that
I know full well, but no man may say that we un-
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: said:--
"Monsieur is not, I trust, on such terms with the princess that we
cannot speak freely of her?"
D'Arthez kept silence. D'Esgrignon, who was not wanting in cleverness,
replied to Rastignac's speech with an apologetic portrait of the
princess, which put the whole table in good humor. As the jest was
extremely obscure to d'Arthez he leaned towards his neighbor, Madame
de Montcornet, and asked her, in a whisper, what it meant.
"Excepting yourself--judging by the excellent opinion you seem to have
of the princess--all the other guests are said to have been in her
good graces."
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