| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Muller replied in the affirmative.
Two days later he returned, bringing with him nothing but a single
little notice.
"Marie Dorn, now Mrs. Kniepp," was one line in his notebook, and
beside it some dates. The latter showed that Marie Dorn had for
two years past been the wife of the Archducal Forest-Councillor,
Leo Kniepp.
And for one year now Professor Paul Fellner had been in the town,
after having applied for his transference from the university in
the capital to this place, which was scarce half an hour's walk
distant from the home of the beautiful young woman who had been
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: that we had come near enough to distinguish the people. And
though by dress we could not be sure of all the grown persons,
still there had not been one man that we were certain of.
"I always liked that Arab saying, `First tie your camel and
then trust in the Lord,'" Jeff murmured; so we all had our weapons
in hand, and stole cautiously through the forest. Terry studied
it as we progressed.
"Talk of civilization," he cried softly in restrained
enthusiasm. "I never saw a forest so petted, even in Germany.
Look, there's not a dead bough--the vines are trained--actually!
And see here"--he stopped and looked about him, calling Jeff's
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: expense, of the citizens the channel of the river is so widened,
deepened, and cleansed from the shoal, which would otherwise
interrupt the navigation, that the ships come now quite up to the
city, and there with ease both deliver and take in their lading.
This city drives a very great correspondence with Holland, as also
directly to Portugal, Spain, and Italy--shipping off vast
quantities of their woollen manufactures especially to Holland, the
Dutch giving very large commissions here for the buying of serges
perpetuans, and such goods; which are made not only in and about
Exeter, but at Crediton, Honiton, Culliton, St.-Mary-Ottery, Newton
Bushel, Ashburton, and especially at Tiverton, Cullompton, Bampton,
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: bitter. "But they don't give things to the prisoners. You know
they don't, Mr. Kennedy. You are just saying that to make me feel
better. You know that our boys freeze to death up there and starve
too and die without doctors and medicine, simply because the
Yankees hate us so much! Oh, if we could just wipe every Yankee
off the face of the earth! Oh, I know that Ashley is--"
"Don't say it!" cried Scarlett, her heart in her throat. As long
as no one said Ashley was dead, there persisted in her heart a
faint hope that he lived, but she felt that if she heard the words
pronounced, in that moment he would die.
"Now, Mrs. Wilkes, don't you bother about your husband," said the
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