| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: could not believe in his own success where so many others had
failed. The thing was too easy, therefore it could not be. The
hole would be empty.
Julius looked at him with a widening smile.
"I guess you're rattled now all right," he drawled with some
enjoyment. "Well, here goes!" He thrust his hand into the
crevice, and made a slight grimace. "It's a tight fit. Jane's
hand must be a few sizes smaller than mine. I don't feel
anything--no--say, what's this? Gee whiz!" And with a flourish
he waved aloft a small discoloured packet. "It's the goods all
right. Sewn up in oilskin. Hold it while I get my penknife."
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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 Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: condescension toward her such as one might use to a lovely
child, which seemed to match but ill with her unconscious
attitude of watchful care, of tender solicitude for
him--almost like the manner of an elder sister. Lovers they
surely were, and acknowledged lovers, for their frankness of
demeanour sought no concealment; but I felt that there must be
A little rift within the lute,
though neither of them might know it. Each one's thought of
the other was different from the other's thought of self.
There could not be a complete understanding, a perfect accord.
What was the secret, of which each knew half, but not the other
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