| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: speaker concluded by nodding her head at Henchard and
folding her arms.
Everybody looked at Henchard. His face seemed strange, and
in tint as if it had been powdered over with ashes. "We
don't want to hear your life and adventures," said the
second magistrate sharply, filling the pause which followed.
"You've been asked if you've anything to say bearing on the
case."
"That bears on the case. It proves that he's no better than
I, and has no right to sit there in judgment upon me."
"'Tis a concocted story," said the clerk. "So hold your
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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 Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: lane, and presently found ourselves wading in the night among deep sand
where we could hear a bullering of the sea. We travelled in this
fashion for some while, following our conductor mostly by the sound of
his voice; and I had begun to think he was perhaps misleading us, when
we came to the top of a small brae, and there appeared out of the
darkness a dim light in a window.
"VOILA L'AUBERGE A BAZIN," says the guide.
Alan smacked his lips. "An unco lonely bit," said he, and I thought by
his tone he was not wholly pleased.
A little after, and we stood in the lower storey of that house, which
was all in the one apartment, with a stairs leading to the chambers at
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