| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: musketeers of Dunbarton's regiment, his thoughts all behind him rather
than ahead, a smile on his lips. He had conquered at the last. He
thought of that other parting of theirs, nearly a month ago, on the
road by Walford. Now, as then, circumstance was the fire that had
melted her. But the crucible was no longer - as then of pity; it
was the crucible of love.
And in that same crucible, too, Anthony Wilding's nature had undergone
a transmutation; his love for Ruth had been purified of that base alloy
of desire which had driven him into the unworthiness of making her his
own at all costs; there was no carnal grossness in his present passion;
it was pure as a religion - the love that takes no account of self, the
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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 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: The pure and blameless liver,
Needs not the keen Toledo blade,
Nor venom-freighted quiver,'"
he quoted.
She looked at him searchingly.
"I wish I could understand you," she said.
"There's simply nothing to understand," he laughed.
She bowed her head, brooding.
He did not see Dawes for several days; then one morning as he
ran upstairs from the Spiral room he almost collided with the burly
metal-worker.
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