| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: scene, even when the sun was at the highest, and made a
proportional impression on the mind of those who visited it.
This was felt even by Michael Lambourne, however alien his habits
were to receiving any impressions, excepting from things which
addressed themselves immediately to his passions.
"This wood is as dark as a wolf's mouth," said he to Tressilian,
as they walked together slowly along the solitary and broken
approach, and had just come in sight of the monastic front of the
old mansion, with its shafted windows, brick walls overgrown with
ivy and creeping shrubs, and twisted stalks of chimneys of heavy
stone-work. "And yet," continued Lambourne, "it is fairly done
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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 Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: the friendship of the immortals; so the evil band sought other means
of keeping Claus from bringing happiness to children and so making
them obedient.
Whenever Claus set out to carry his toys to the little ones an Awgwa,
who had been set to watch his movements, sprang upon him and snatched
the toys from his grasp. And the children were no more disappointed
than was Claus when he was obliged to return home disconsolate. Still
he persevered, and made many toys for his little friends and started
with them for the villages. And always the Awgwas robbed him as soon
as he had left the Valley.
They threw the stolen playthings into one of their lonely caverns, and
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