| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: perform it.'
Then he straitly discharged Francie to repeat the tale, and
bade him in the future to avert his very eyes from the doings
of the curate. 'You must go to his place of idolatry; look
upon him there!' says he, 'but nowhere else. Avert your
eyes, close your ears, pass him by like a three days' corp.
He is like that damnable monster Basiliscus, which defiles -
yea, poisons! - by the sight.' - All which was hardly
claratory to the boy's mind.
Presently Montroymont came home, and called up the stairs to
Francie. Traquair was a good shot and swordsman: and it was
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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 Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: On my Arab shod with fire.
The instructer had not heard the song, but he said it was a good
name, because very likly no one else would think of having it.
"It sounds like a love song," he observed.
"It is," I replied, and gave him a steady glanse. Because, if one
realy loves, it is silly to deny it.
"Long ways to a Dessert, isn't it?" he inquired.
"A Dessert may be a place, or it may be a thirsty and emty place in
the Soul," I replied. "In my case it is Soul, not terratory."
But I saw that he did not understand.
How few there are who realy understand! How many of us, as I, stand
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