| 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: her, there was no question; and the only hope which remained for
him was her high sense of dignified propriety, which, he trusted,
might prevent a public explosion. But so active were his doubts
and fears as altogether to derange his purposed ceremonial for
the reception of the Marquis.
These feelings of apprehension were not confined to Sir William
Ashton. "It is my mother--it is my mother!" said Lucy, turning
as pale as ashes, and clasping her hands together as she looked
at Ravenswood.
"And if it be Lady Ashton," said her lover to her in a low tone,
"what can be the occasion of such alarm? Surely the return of a
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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 Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: A silence had fallen upon them all, caused partly by one of the
accidents of talk, and partly because they saw some one approaching.
Helen could not see who it was, but keeping her eyes fixed upon Rachel
observed something which made her say to herself, "So it's Hewet."
She drew on her gloves with a curious sense of the significance
of the moment. Then she rose, for Mrs. Flushing had seen Hewet too,
and was demanding information about rivers and boats which showed
that the whole conversation would now come over again.
Rachel followed her, and they walked in silence down the avenue.
In spite of what Helen had seen and understood, the feeling that was
uppermost in her mind was now curiously perverse; if she went on
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