| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: vague dream of new young life stirring in the big house, of no more
lonely evenings, of the bustle and activity of a family again.
She wanted Wallie to settle down. She was tired of paying his
bills at his clubs and at various hotels, tired and weary of the
days he lay in bed all morning while his valet concocted various
things to enable him to pull himself together. He had been four
years sowing his wild oats, and now at twenty-five she felt he
should be through with them.
The south room could be the nursery.
On Decoration Day, as usual, she did her dutiful best by the
community, sent flowers to the cemetery and even stood through a
The Breaking Point |
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 Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: you we was dissatisfied, and wouldn't have you run the outfit any
longer," explained Neil.
"In that event, having heard the report of the committee, if
there's no further new business, I declare this meeting adjourned
sine die. Kindly remove the perfume tubs, Captain Neil, at your
earliest convenience."
The quartette retreated ignominiously. They had come prepared to
gloat over Leroy's discomfiture, and he had mocked them with that
insolent ease of his that set their teeth in helpless rage.
But the deposed chief knew they had not struck their last blow.
Throughout the night he could hear the low-voiced murmur of their
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