| 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 Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: family are not there."
"All right, then, it's a bargain," laughed Muller, signalling to
the landlord. "Are you, going already?" asked the old servant.
"Yes, I must be going if I am to spend any time with the little dog."
"I suppose I ought to be at home myself," said Franz. "Something's
the matter with the electric wiring in our place. The bell in the
master's room keeps ringing. I wrote to Siemens & Halske to send us
a man out to fix it. He's likely to come any minute now." The two
men rose, paid their checks, and went out together. Outside the
caf‚ Muller hesitated a moment. "You go on ahead," he said to Franz.
"I want to go in here and get a cigar."
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: God in Heaven, I will kill you!
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. [Rushing across and catching hold of him] No! no!
GERALD. [Thrusting her back.] Don't hold me, mother. Don't hold
me - I'll kill him!
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. Gerald!
GERALD. Let me go, I say!
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. Stop, Gerald, stop! He is your own father!
[GERALD clutches his mother's hands and looks into her face. She
sinks slowly on the ground in shame. HESTER steals towards the
door. LORD ILLINGWORTH frowns and bites his lip. After a time
GERALD raises his mother up, puts his am round her, and leads her
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