| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: by James Whitcomb Ryan, and Constable Hooker had promised us a salute
of nine guns from Chicago that he had arrested that day.
"After we had disbanded in the armory, Willie says to me:
"'Want to walk out a piece with me?'
"'Why, yes,' says I, 'if it ain't so far that we can't hear the tumult
and the shouting die away. I'm hungry myself,' says I, 'and I'm
pining for some home grub, but I'll go with you.'
"Willie steered me down some side streets till we came to a little
white cottage in a new lot with a twenty-by-thirty-foot lawn decorated
with brickbats and old barrel-staves.
"'Halt and give the countersign,' says I to Willie. 'Don't you know
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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 Kenilworth by Walter Scott: dispense with his services, or refuse his requests, however
unreasonable. And if this disdainful dame, as he termed the
Countess, should comply with the request of her husband, Varney,
her pretended husband, must needs become so situated with respect
to her, that there was no knowing where his audacity might be
bounded perhaps not till circumstances enabled him to obtain a
triumph, which he thought of with a mixture of fiendish feelings,
in which revenge for her previous scorn was foremost and
predominant. Again he contemplated the possibility of her being
totally intractable, and refusing obstinately to play the part
assigned to her in the drama at Kenilworth.
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