| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: LORD ILLINGWORTH. Do, my dear boy. [Moves towards with MRS.
ALLONBY and GERALD.]
[LADY CAROLINE enters, looks rapidly round and goes off in opposite
direction to that taken by SIR JOHN and LADY STUTFIELD.]
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. Gerald!
GERALD. What, mother!
[Exit LORD ILLINGWORTH with MRS. ALLONBY.]
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. It is getting late. Let us go home.
GERALD. My dear mother. Do let us wait a little longer. Lord
Illingworth is so delightful, and, by the way, mother, I have a
great surprise for you. We are starting for India at the end of
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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 White Moll by Frank L. Packard: incandescent alone burned in the hall. Perlmer's room, so the
name-plate indicated, was Number Eleven, and on the next floor.
She mounted the stairs, and paused on the landing to look around
her again. Here, too, the hallway was lighted by but a single
lamp; and here, too, an air of desertion was in evidence. The
office tenants, it was fairly obvious, were not habitual night
workers, for not a ray of light came from any of the glass-paneled
doors that flanked both sides of the passage. She nodded her head
sharply in satisfaction. It was equally obvious that Perlmer had
already gone. It would take her but a moment, then, unless the
skeleton keys gave her trouble. She had never used a key of that
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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 Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: should be very good and very happy; but I doubt if I should do
anything else.
I suppose you will be in town for the New Year; and I hope your
health is pretty good. What you want is diet; but it is as much
use to tell you that as it is to tell my father. And I quite admit
a diet is a beastly thing. I doubt, however, if it be as bad as
not being allowed to speak, which I have tried fully, and do not
like. When, at the same time, I was not allowed to read, it passed
a joke. But these are troubles of the past, and on this day, at
least, it is proper to suppose they won't return. But we are not
put here to enjoy ourselves: it was not God's purpose; and I am
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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 Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: came to himself it was none too soon. He sat up dizzily and
passed his hand over his head. Something had happened.
What was it? Oh, yes, he had been thrown from his horse. A wave
of recollection passed over him, and his mind was clear once
more. Presently he got to his feet and moved rather uncertainly
toward Buck, for the horse was grazing quietly a few yards from
him.
But half way to the pony he stopped. Voices, approaching by way
of the bed of Dry Creek, drifted to him.
"He must 'a' turned and gone back. Mebbe he guessed we was
there."
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