| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: all directions about the crossroads at which their car had
come to its humiliating stop. There was no cover. To have
sought escape by flight, thus in the open, would have been
to expose the princess to the fire of the troopers. Barney
could not do this. He preferred to surrender and trust to
chance to open the way to escape later.
When Captain Ernst Maenck drove up he found the pris-
oners disarmed, standing beside the now-useless car. He
alighted from his own machine and with a low bow saluted
the princess, an ironical smile upon his thin lips. Then he
turned his attention toward her companion.
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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 Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: town. Strether had already been there three times--first with Miss
Gostrey, then with Chad, then with Chad again and with Waymarsh and
little Bilham, all of whom he had himself sagaciously entertained;
and his pleasure was deep now on learning that Madame de Vionnet
hadn't yet been initiated. When he had said as they strolled round
the church, by the river, acting at last on what, within, he had
made up his mind to, "Will you, if you have time, come to dejeuner
with me somewhere? For instance, if you know it, over there on the
other side, which is so easy a walk"--and then had named the
place; when he had done this she stopped short as for quick
intensity, and yet deep difficulty, of response. She took in the
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