| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: "Pray leave me to manage here, Jane; this is no place for you.
Bring Erskine to the house. He must be--"
"Why don't the police make them go away?" said Lady Brandon, too
excited to listen to her husband.
"Hush, Jane, pray. What can three men do against thirty or
forty?"
"They ought to take up somebody as an example to the rest."
"They have offered, in the handsomest manner, to arrest me if Sir
Charles will give me in charge," said Trefusis.
"There!" said Lady Jane, turning to her husband. "Why don't you
give him--or someone--in charge?"
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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 Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: and not been in such a hurry!"
Meantime Cox had gone home from his office and told his wife all
about the strange thing that had happened, and they had talked it
over eagerly, and guessed that the late Goodson was the only man in
the town who could have helped a suffering stranger with so noble a
sum as twenty dollars. Then there was a pause, and the two became
thoughtful and silent. And by-and-by nervous and fidgety. At last
the wife said, as if to herself,
"Nobody knows this secret but the Richardses . . . and us . . .
nobody."
The husband came out of his thinkings with a slight start, and gazed
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