| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: next month's railway time-table."
But later she found a topic that could hold their attention
for a time.
"We have never said a word about religion," she said.
Sir Richmond paused for a moment. "I am a godless man," he
said. "The stars and space and time overwhelm my imagination.
I cannot imagine anything above or beyond them."
She thought that over. "But there are divine things," she
said.
"YOU are divine. . . . I'm not talking lovers' nonsense," he
hastened to add. "I mean that there is something about human
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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 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: saloons. She passed more glittering avenues and went into darker
blocks than those where the crowd travelled.
A young man in light overcoat and derby hat received a glance
shot keenly from the eyes of the girl. He stopped and looked at
her, thrusting his hands in his pockets and making a mocking smile
curl his lips. "Come, now, old lady," he said, "you don't mean to
tell me that you sized me up for a farmer?"
A laboring man marched along with bundles under his arms.
To her remarks, he replied: "It's a fine evenin', ain't it?"
She smiled squarely into the face of a boy who was hurrying by
with his hands buried in his overcoat, his blonde locks bobbing on
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