| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: Philippa received us both with every expression of affectionate
Love. My arrival was indeed a most agreable surprise to her as
she had not only been totally ignorant of my Marriage with her
Nephew, but had never even had the slightest idea of there being
such a person in the World.
Augusta, the sister of Edward was on a visit to her when we
arrived. I found her exactly what her Brother had described her
to be--of the middle size. She received me with equal surprise
though not with equal Cordiality, as Philippa. There was a
disagreable coldness and Forbidding Reserve in her reception of
me which was equally distressing and Unexpected. None of that
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: that the sky cleared once more, and, lo and behold! The garden
and the torrent and all were gone, and nothing was left but a
naked plain covered over with the bones of those who had come
that way before, seeking the fruit which the travelling servant
had sought.
It was a long time before the servant found his way back into the
world again, and the first house he came to, weak and hungry, was
the widow's.
But what a change he beheld! It was a poor cottage no longer, but
a splendid palace, fit for a queen to dwell in. The widow herself
met him at the door, and she was dressed in clothes fit for a
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