| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: own business, but I'll put it to yuh straight. Long as yuh live
you'll be sorry for this."
And with that he wheeled away.
She turned to her new foreman and found him less radiant than she
could have desired. "I'm right sorry y'u did that. I'm afraid
y'u'll make trouble for yourself," he said quietly.
"Why?"
"I don't know myself just why." He hesitated before adding: "They
say him and Bannister is thicker than they'd ought to be. It's a
cinch that he's in cahoots somehow with that Shoshone bunch of
bad men."
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: The fact of Nick's temporary inaccessibility--since she was now
convinced that he was really at the Hickses'--turned her
distress to a mocking irritation. Ah, that was where he carried
his principles, his standards, or whatever he called the new set
of rules he had suddenly begun to apply to the old game! It was
stupid of her not to have guessed it at once.
"Oh, the Hickses--Nick adores them, you know. He's going to
marry Coral next," she laughed out, flashing the joke around the
table with all her practiced flippancy.
"Lord!" grasped Gillow, inarticulate: while the Prince
displayed the unsurprised smile which Susy accused him of
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