| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: she could have cried, so good and charming did it all seem to her!
Beyond a doubt she had been born to live honestly! So she pushed
Georges away again, and he grew yet bolder.
"No, let me be. I don't care about it. It would be very wicked at
your age. Now listen--I'll always be your mamma."
A sudden feeling of shame overcame her. She was blushing
exceedingly, and yet not a soul could see her. The room behind them
was full of black night while the country stretched before them in
silence and lifeless solitude. Never had she known such a sense of
shame before. Little by little she felt her power of resistance
ebbing away, and that despite her embarrassed efforts to the
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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 Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: had very extravagant ideas about life and the world; but now," she
added pointedly, looking at him in a perfectly distracting way, "I
know where true riches are to be found for a wife."
"I must believe that you are speaking from the depths of your heart,"
he said, with gentle gravity. "But this winter, my dear Emilie, in
less than two months perhaps, I may be proud of what I shall have to
offer you if you care for the pleasures of wealth. This is the only
secret I shall keep locked here," and he laid his hand on his heart,
"for on its success my happiness depends. I dare not say ours."
"Yes, yes, ours!"
Exchanging such sweet nothings, they slowly made their way back to
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: is to float us on the new year can not come due till SILVERADO is
all ready; I am delaying it myself for the moment; then will follow
the binders and the travellers and an infinity of other nuisances;
and only at the last, the jingling-tingling.
Do you know that TREASURE ISLAND has appeared? In the November
number of Henley's Magazine, a capital number anyway, there is a
funny publisher's puff of it for your book; also a bad article by
me. Lang dotes on TREASURE ISLAND: 'Except TOM SAWYER and the
ODYSSEY,' he writes, 'I never liked any romance so much.' I will
inclose the letter though. The Bogue is angelic, although very
dirty. It has rained - at last! It was jolly cold when the rain
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: answer. He knew that this harmless remedy would be likely to do
the dog good and at the present moment he wanted to be left alone
in the room. As soon as Franz had gone, the detective hastened to
the window, placing himself behind the curtain so that he could
not be seen from outside. He himself could see first a wide
courtyard lying between the two wings of the house, then beyond it
the garden, an immense square plot of ground beautifully cultivated.
The left wing of the house was about six windows longer than the
other, and from the first story of it it would be quite easy to look
out over the vacant lot where the old shed stood which had served
as a night's lodging for Johann Knoll.
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