The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: too long," answered Sir Frederick.
"If you leave us," said Ellieslaw, "you cannot but know both your
ruin and ours is certain; all depends on our adhering together."
"Leave me to take care of myself," returned the knight; "but were
what you say true, I would rather perish than be fooled any
farther."
"Can nothing--no surety convince you of my sincerity?" said
Ellieslaw, anxiously; "this morning I should have repelled your
unjust suspicions as an insult; but situated as we now are--"
"You feel yourself compelled to be sincere?" retorted Sir
Frederick. "If you would have me think so, there is but one way
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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 Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Smith-Oldwick, in recalling the long months of arduous
training he had undergone himself before he had been con-
sidered sufficiently adept to be considered a finished flier,
smiled at the conceit of the ignorant African who was already
demanding that he be permitted to make a flight alone.
"If it was not for losing the machine," the Englishman ex-
plained to the girl, "I'd let the bounder take it up and break
his fool neck as he would do inside of two minutes."
However, he finally persuaded Usanga to bide his time for
a few more days of instruction, but in the suspicious mind of
the Negro there was a growing conviction that the white man's
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