| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: bottles, and then took the basket on his arm.
"But where are you going to eat my breakfast?" asked the
host.
"What matter, if you are paid for it?" said Athos, and he
threw two pistoles majestically on the table.
"Shall I give you the change, my officer?" said the host.
"No, only add two bottles of champagne, and the difference
will be for the napkins."
The host had not quite so good a bargain as he at first
hoped for, but he made amends by slipping in two bottles of
Anjou wine instead of two bottles of champagne.
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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 Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: Canyon road that led over the divide and down into the Napa Valley. But the
climb was hard, the going was slow. Sometimes they topped the bed of the
torrent by hundreds of feet, and again they dipped down and crossed and
recrossed it twenty times in twice as many rods. They rode through the deep
shade of clean-bunked maples and towering redwoods, to emerge on open
stretches of mountain shoulder where the earth lay dry and cracked under the
sun.
On one such shoulder they emerged, where the road stretched level before them,
for a quarter of a mile. On one side rose the huge bulk of the mountain. On
the other side the steep wall of the canyon fell away in impossible slopes and
sheer drops to the torrent at the bottom. It was an abyss of green beauty and
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