| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: cursed me just awful, Hi--I wish I was dead!"
"You better come in," said Hiram. "It's no good standing out
there in the cold." He stood aside and the girl entered,
swiftly, gratefully.
At Hiram's bidding black Dinah presently set some food before
Sally and she fell to eating ravenously, almost ferociously.
Meantime, while she ate, Hiram stood with his back to the fire,
looking at her face that face once so round and rosy, now thin,
pinched, haggard.
"Are you sick, Sally?" said he presently.
"No," said she, "but I've had pretty hard times since I left
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: "My mother was a Van Cleve," said Gladys drearily, as though
that explained everything. So it might have, to any but a Lily
Bernstein.
Lily didn't know what a Van Cleve was, but she sensed it as a
drawback.
"Don't you care. Everybody's folks have got something the
matter with 'em. Especially when you're a girl. But if I was
you, I'd go right ahead and do what I wanted to."
In the doorway at the far end of the shop appeared Emma with her
two visitors. Mrs. Orton-Wells stopped and said something to a
girl at a machine, and her very posture and smile reeked of an
Emma McChesney & Co. |
