| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: Presley were saddling their horses before the stables on Los
Muertos, the foreman, Phelps, remarked:
"I was into town last night, and I hear that Christian has been
after Ruggles early and late to have him put him in possession
here on Los Muertos, and Delaney is doing the same for Quien
Sabe."
It was this man Christian, the real estate broker, and cousin of
S. Behrman, one of the main actors in the drama of Dyke's
capture, who had come forward as a purchaser of Los Muertos when
the Railroad had regraded its holdings on the ranches around
Bonneville.
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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 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: war-horse's, and I knew he was longing for a brush
with them. But about noon of the third day I had
stopped in the road to take a precaution which had
been suggested by the whip-stroke that had fallen to
my share two days before; a precaution which I had
afterward decided to leave untaken, I was so loath to
institute it; but now I had just had a fresh reminder:
while striding heedlessly along, with jaw spread and
intellect at rest, for I was prophesying, I stubbed my
toe and fell sprawling. I was so pale I couldn't think
for a moment; then I got softly and carefully up and
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