| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: "Do you think now, Miss Lyndall, that he'll ever have anything in the
world--that German. I mean--money enough to support a wife on, and all
that sort of thing? I don't. He's what I call soft."
She was spreading her skirt out softly with her left hand for the dog to
lie down on it.
"I think I should be rather astonished if he ever became a respectable
member of society," she said. I don't expect to see him the possessor of
bank-shares, the chairman of a divisional council, and the father of a
large family; wearing a black hat, and going to church twice on a Sunday.
He would rather astonish me if he came to such an end."
"Yes; I don't expect anything of him either," said Gregory, zealously.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: gate. Simultaneously the lion, evidently scenting the purpose
of the Tarmangani, broke into a full charge toward the guard.
Shaken by the report of the unfamiliar weapon, the ranks
of the guardsmen broke before the furious assault of the great
beast. The officer screamed forth a volley of commands in a
mad fury of uncontrolled rage but the guardsmen, obeying the
first law of nature as well as actuated by their inherent fear of
the black denizen of the forest scattered to right and left to
elude the monster. With ferocious growls Numa wheeled to
the right, and with raking talons struck right and left among a
little handful of terrified guardsmen who were endeavoring
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