| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: problem, the thing that went about between her and the sun. It will
be imagined that it did not come up like the weather; indeed, it was
hardly ever to be envisaged and never to be held; but it was always
there, and out of our joint consciousness it would sometimes leap
and pass, without shape or face. It might slip between two
sentences, or it might remain, a dogging shadow, for an hour. Or a
week would go by while, with a strong hand, she held it out of sight
altogether and talked of Anna--always of Anna. Her eyes shone with
the things she told me then: she seemed to keep herself under the
influence of them as if they had the power of narcotics. At the end
of a time like this she turned to me in the door as she was going
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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 Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: resource, and energy had raised them in a few weeks from a pack of
vagrant mountebanks to a self-respecting company of first-rate
players. They acknowledged it generously in a speech entrusted to
Polichinelle, adding the tribute to his genius that, as they had
conquered Nantes, so would they conquer the world under his guidance.
In their enthusiasm they were a little neglectful of the feelings
of M. Binet. Irritated enough had he been already by the overriding
of his every wish, by the consciousness of his weakness when opposed
to Scaramouche. And, although he had suffered the gradual process
of usurpation of authority because its every step had been attended
by his own greater profit, deep down in him the resentment abode to
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