| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: exercised the doctor's mind. He found now that the case of
Sir Richmond had stirred his imagination. He sat with his
hands apposed, his head on one side, and an expression of
great intellectual contentment on his face while these
emancipated ideas gave a sort of gala performance in his
mind.
The good doctor did not dislike women, he had always guarded
himself very carefully against misogyny, but he was very
strongly disposed to regard them as much less necessary in
the existing scheme of things than was generally assumed.
Women, he conceded, had laid the foundations of social life.
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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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: matted thick with wild grape-vines, threw a cavernous gloom over
it. To pass this bridge was the severest trial. It was at this
identical spot that the unfortunate Andre was captured, and under
the covert of those chestnuts and vines were the sturdy yeomen
concealed who surprised him. This has ever since been considered
a haunted stream, and fearful are the feelings of the school-boy
who has to pass it alone after dark.
As he approached the stream, his heart began to thump he
summoned up, however, all his resolution, gave his horse half a
score of kicks in the ribs, and attempted to dash briskly across
the bridge; but instead of starting forward, the perverse old
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