| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: kindling-wood after I had gotten all that I wanted. But there it
was, and in an instant the magician resumed his own shape. Down
he sat him upon the stool. "I wish," said he, "that this palace
and the princess and all who are within it, together with its
orchards and its lawns and its gardens and everything, may be
removed to such and such a country, upon the other side of the
earth."
And as the stool had obeyed the soldier, so everything was done
now just as the magician said.
The next morning back came the hunting-party, and as they rode
over the hill--lo and behold!--there lay stretched out the great
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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 Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: first acquaintance with her - his first intimate acquaintance at
least - during his three months' sojourn at F-, for I now
recollected that he had once casually let fall an intimation that
his aunt and sister had a young friend staying with them at the
time, and this accounted for at least one-half his silence about
all transactions there. Now, too, I saw a reason for many little
things that had slightly puzzled me before; among the rest, for
sundry departures from Woodford, and absences more or less
prolonged, for which he never satisfactorily accounted, and
concerning which he hated to be questioned on his return. Well
might the servant say his master was 'very close.' But why this
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