| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: present for discussing these "questionings" of hers, and then his
fatigue and shyness had the better of him again.
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The papers got hold of Eleanor's share in the suffragette
disturbance. The White Blackbird said things about her.
It did not attack her. It did worse. It admired her
...impudently.
It spoke of her once as "Norah," and once as "the Scrope
Flapper."
Its headline proclaimed: "Plucky Flappers Hold Up L. G."
CHAPTER THE THIRD - INSOMNIA
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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 Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: would have sickened; for, in a word, the whole mass of people began
to sicken, and it looked as if none would escape.
But this remark of my friend's appeared more evident in a few
weeks more, for the decrease went on, and another week in October it
decreased 1843, so that the number dead of the plague was but 2665;
and the next week it decreased 1413 more, and yet it was seen plainly
that there was abundance of people sick, nay, abundance more than
ordinary, and abundance fell sick every day but (as above) the
malignity of the disease abated.
Such is the precipitant disposition of our people (whether it is so or
not all over the world, that's none of my particular business to
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