| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: the marriage should be solemnised upon the fourth day after
signing the articles, a masure adopted by Lady Ashton, in order
that Lucy might have as little time as possible to recede or
relapse into intractability. There was no appearance, however,
of her doing either. She heard the proposed arrangement with the
calm indifference of despair, or rather with an apathy arising
from the oppressed and stupified state of her feelings. To an
eye so unobserving as that of Bucklaw, her demeanour had little
more of reluctance than might suit the character of a bashful
young lady, who, however, he could not disguise from himself, was
complying with the choice of her friends rather than exercising
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: step which met with the approval of the entire city.
He returned to the home where love and affection awaited him, ready
to make him forget what he had suffered. But the silver threads in
his dark hair and a certain quiet seriousness in his manner, and in
the hearts of all the dwellers in the old mansion, showed that the
occurrence of that fatal 27th of September had thrown a shadow over
them all which was not to be shaken off.
Joseph Muller brought many other cases to a successful solution.
But for years after this particular case had been won, he was
followed, as by a shadow, by a man who watched over him, and who,
whenever danger threatened, stood over the frail detective as if
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