| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: a small circle quivering with participation. Darrow was
furthermore aware that, though the case of the other couple
ought to have made his own less conspicuous, it was rather
they who found a refuge in the shadow of his prominence.
Madame de Chantelle, though she had consented to Owen's
engagement and formally welcomed his betrothed, was
nevertheless not sorry to show, by her reception of Darrow,
of what finely-shaded degrees of cordiality she was capable.
Miss Painter, having won the day for Owen, was also free to
turn her attention to the newer candidate for her sympathy;
and Darrow and Anna found themselves immersed in a warm bath
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: generation; one side still doomed to the clumsy and the
servile, the other born to beauty.
She thought of the golden zones in which gentlemen were bred,
and figured with so excellent a grace; zones in which wisdom
and smooth words, white linen and slim hands, were the mark
of the desired inhabitants; where low temptations were
unknown, and honesty no virtue, but a thing as natural as
breathing.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD
CHAPTER IV - MINGLING THREADS
IT was nearly seven before Mr. Archer left his apartment. On
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