| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: And fearest thou because I vanish and am seen no more.
Nothing remains; O maid I tell thee, when I pass away.
It is to tenfold life, to love, to peace, and raptures holy:
Unseen descending, weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers:
And court the fair eyed dew, to take me to her shining tent
The weeping virgin, trembling kneels before the risen sun.
Till we arise link'd in a golden band and never part:
But walk united bearing food to all our tender flowers.
Dost thou O little cloud? I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the sweetest flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the warbling birds,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: Thorpe studied her a good deal, in a furtive way,
with a curiosity born of his knowledge that the Duke had
preferred her, when he might have married his widowed cousin,
who was now Thorpe's own wife. How he had come to know this,
he could never have told. He had breathed it in, somehow,
with the gossip-laden atmosphere of that one London season
of his. It was patent enough, too, that his wife--his
Edith--had not only liked this ducal youngster very much,
but still entertained toward him a considerable affection.
She had never dissembled this feeling, and it visibly
informed her glance and manner now, at her own table,
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: has left his property, a pretty creature, gentle as a lamb, a nice
little girl, so pleasant. She has such blue eyes, long as THAT," he
added, marking a line on his thumb, "and hair like the cherubim. When
you ask her: 'Tell me, Perotte' (That's how we say Pierette in these
parts," he remarked, interrupting himself; "she is vowed to Saint
Pierre; Cambremer is named Pierre, and he was her godfather)--'Tell
me, Perotte, what does your uncle say to you?'--'He says nothing to
me, nothing.'--'Well, then, what does he do to you?' 'He kisses me on
the forehead, Sundays.'--'Are you afraid of him?'--'Ah, no, no; isn't
he my godfather? he wouldn't have anybody but me bring him his food.'
Perotte declares that he smiles when she comes; but you might as well
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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 Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: were found in first class order."
"I am sure they would be, Mr. Clymer," exclaimed Kent warmly. "Any
one who knew Jimmie would never doubt his honesty."
McIntyre turned in his chair and regarded the speaker with no
friendly eye, but aside from that, took no part in the conversation.
Clymer did not at once resume speaking.
"To-day," he commenced finally, "Colonel McIntyre called at the
bank and asked the treasurer, Mr. Gilmore, for certain valuable
negotiable securities which he left in the bank's care a month ago.
Mr. Gilmore told Colonel McIntyre that these securities had been
given to Jimmie Turnbull last Saturday on his presentation of a
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