| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: room in terror.
He leaned over her and whispered tensely:
"For God's sake, Kiddo--don't--don't do that! I
didn't mean to hurt you--honest, I didn't. Don't cry
any more and I'll take you right down to the black
hole, and let you sleep on the floor if you want to.
Gee! I'll give you the whole place, tools, junk and
all----"
She lifted her head.
"Will you, Jim?"
"Sure I will! We start this minute if you want to
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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 Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: bracelet around its neck, and to keep it always with her.
One day she had fallen asleep in her room, with the dog at her
feet, as his habit was. Her feet were bare and resting on his
back. Suddenly she was waked by her husband: he stood beside
her, smiling not unkindly.
"You look like my great-grandmother, Juliane de Cornault, lying
in the chapel with her feet on a little dog," he said.
The analogy sent a chill through her, but she laughed and
answered: "Well, when I am dead you must put me beside her,
carved in marble, with my dog at my feet."
"Oho--we'll wait and see," he said, laughing also, but with his
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