| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: so sure myself," she continued with a curious, vanishing,
intonation of despair. "I don't know the truth about myself
because I never had an opportunity to compare myself to anything in
the world. I have been offered mock adulation, treated with mock
reserve or with mock devotion, I have been fawned upon with an
appalling earnestness of purpose, I can tell you; but these later
honours, my dear, came to me in the shape of a very loyal and very
scrupulous gentleman. For he is all that. And as a matter of fact
I was touched."
"I know. Even to tears," I said provokingly. But she wasn't
provoked, she only shook her head in negation (which was absurd)
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: Coronado, and just as they were preparing to get under way, Hoang
touched Wilbur's elbow.
"Seeum lil one-piece smoke-boat; him come chop-chop."
In fact, a little steam-launch was rapidly approaching the
schooner. In another instant she was alongside. Jerry, Nat
Ridgeway, Josie Herrick, and an elderly woman, whom Wilbur barely
knew as Miss Herrick's married sister, were aboard.
"We've come off to see your yacht!" cried Miss Herrick to Wilbur
as the launch bumped along the schooner's counter. "Can we come
aboard?" She looked very pretty in her crisp pink shirt-waist her
white duck skirt, and white kid shoes, her sailor hat tilted at a
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