The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: Doc." The Indians who had done this were now in military custody.
They had come unpermitted from a southern reservation, hunting,
next thieving, and as the slumbering spirit roused in one or two
of the young and ambitious, they had ventured this in the secret
mountains, and perhaps had killed a trapper found there. Editors
immediately reared a tall war out of it; but from five Indians in
a guard-house waiting punishment not even an editor can supply
spar for more than two editions, and if the recent alarm was
still a matter of talk anywhere, it was not here in the sick-room
Whichever way the case should turn, it was through Molly alone
(the doctor told her) that the wounded man had got this
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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 The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: learn; next time it shall go better, by the rood."
"Nay, Dick," said Joanna, "what matters it? Here we are together
once again."
He looked at her, and there she was - John Matcham, as of yore, in
hose and doublet. But now he knew her; now, even in that ungainly
dress, she smiled upon him, bright with love; and his heart was
transported with joy.
"Sweetheart," he said, "if ye forgive this blunderer, what care I?
Make we direct for Holywood; there lieth your good guardian and my
better friend, Lord Foxham. There shall we be wed; and whether
poor or wealthy, famous or unknown, what, matters it? This day,
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