| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: odds?" He moved toward his hat with a vague impulse of flight.
"It all counts," said Flamel, imperturbably. "A long
correspondence--one, I mean, that covers a great deal of time--is
obviously worth more than if the same number of letters had been
written within a year. At any rate, you won't give them to
Joslin? They'd fill a book, wouldn't they?"
"I suppose so. I don't know how much it takes to fill a book."
"Not love-letters, you say?"
"Why?" flashed from Glennard.
"Oh, nothing--only the big public is sentimental, and if they
WERE--why, you could get any money for Margaret Aubyn's love-
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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 Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: hear this without academical approval; impossible to hear it
without practical alarm. The natives desired to see activity; they
desired to see many fair speeches taken on a body of deeds and
works of benefit. Fired by the event of the war, filled with
impossible hopes, they might have welcomed in that hour a ruler of
the stamp of Brandeis, breathing hurry, perhaps dealing blows. And
the chief justice, unconscious of the fleeting opportunity, ripened
his opinions deliberately in Mulinuu; and had been already the
better part of half a year in the islands before he went through
the form of opening his court. The curtain had risen; there was no
play. A reaction, a chill sense of disappointment, passed about
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