| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: with his patrons; his first successful attempt - though there was
little other success about it - to bring them to a consideration of
his impossible position. As the ostensible eve of a costly journey
the moment had struck him as favourable to an earnest protest, the
presentation of an ultimatum. Ridiculous as it sounded, he had
never yet been able to compass an uninterrupted private interview
with the elder pair or with either of them singly. They were
always flanked by their elder children, and poor Pemberton usually
had his own little charge at his side. He was conscious of its
being a house in which the surface of one's delicacy got rather
smudged; nevertheless he had preserved the bloom of his scruple
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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 Young Forester by Zane Grey: scent of pitch. Now that I was not riding, the roar of the fire sounded
close. I caught the same strange growl, the note of on-sweeping fury. Again
the creepy cold went over me. I felt my face blanch, and the skin tighten
over my cheeks. I dashed into the cabin, crying: "Fire! Fire! Fire!"
"Whoop! It's the kid!" yelled Herky-Jerky.
He was lying near the door, red as a brick in the face, and panting hard.
In one cut I severed the rope on his feet; in another, that round his raw
and bloody wrists. Herky had torn his flesh trying to release his hands.
"Kid, how'd you git back hyar?" he questioned, with his sharp little eyes
glinting on me. "Did the fire chase you? Whar's Leslie?"
"Buell fired the slash. Penetier is burning. Dick and Hiram sent me back to
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