| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: corner of Paris with his friend.
"I must confess," he presently went on, "that here I don't feel at all smart.
My remarkable talents seem of no use. I feel as simple as a little child,
and a little child might take me by the hand and lead me about."
"Oh, I'll be your little child," said Tristram, jovially; "I'll take
you by the hand. Trust yourself to me"
"I am a good worker," Newman continued, "but I rather think
I am a poor loafer. I have come abroad to amuse myself,
but I doubt whether I know how."
"Oh, that's easily learned."
"Well, I may perhaps learn it, but I am afraid I shall never do it by rote.
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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 Lin McLean by Owen Wister: slanted upward through for a while, they came out again upon the
immensity of the table-land. Here, abruptly like an ambush, was the whole
unsuspected river close below to their right, as if it had emerged from
the earth. With a circling sweep from somewhere out in the gloom it cut
in close to the lofty mesa beneath tall clean-graded descents of sand,
smooth as a railroad embankment. As they paused on the level to breathe
their horses, the wet gulp of its eddies rose to them through the
stillness. Upstream they could make out the light of the Drybone bridge,
but not the bridge itself; and two lights on the farther bank showed
where stood the hog-ranch opposite Drybone. They went on over the
table-land and reached the next herald of the town, Drybone's chief
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