| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: poor wife - " General Fancourt paused a moment, smiling a little
less. "I dare say you know."
"About Mrs. St. George's death? Certainly - I heard at the time."
"Oh no, I mean - I mean he's to be married."
"Ah I've not heard that!" But just as Paul was about to add "To
whom?" the General crossed his intention.
"When did you come back? I know you've been away - by my daughter.
She was very sorry. You ought to give her something new."
"I came back last night," said our young man, to whom something had
occurred which made his speech for the moment a little thick.
"Ah most kind of you to come so soon. Couldn't you turn up at
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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 Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: She had her last grave pause, as if there might be a choice of
ways. But she chose. "By going on as you are."
It was into this going on as he was that they relapsed, and really
for so long a time that the day inevitably came for a further
sounding of their depths. These depths, constantly bridged over by
a structure firm enough in spite of its lightness and of its
occasional oscillation in the somewhat vertiginous air, invited on
occasion, in the interest of their nerves, a dropping of the
plummet and a measurement of the abyss. A difference had been made
moreover, once for all, by the fact that she had all the while not
appeared to feel the need of rebutting his charge of an idea within
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