| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: though to enter the armory. The next moment he saw the bachelors
come pouring out from the archway.
Instantly he turned and rushed back towards where his friends lay
hidden, shouting: "To the rescue! To the rescue!"
"Stone him!" roared Blunt. "The villain escapes!
He stopped and picked up a cobble-stone as he spoke, flinging it
after his escaping prey. It narrowly missed Myles's head; had it
struck him, there might have been no more of this story to tell.
"To the rescue! To the rescue!" shouted Myles's friends in
answer, and the next moment he was surrounded by them. Then he
turned, and swinging his cudgel, rushed back upon his foes.
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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 Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: dishonored in his own eyes if he did not repay the sum he borrowed
from a waiter in a gaming-house; but will shrink from no crime, will
leave his wife and children without a penny, and rob and murder, if so
he may come to the gaming-table with a full purse, and his honor
remain untarnished among the frequenters of that fatal abode. So it
was with Castanier.
He had begun by installing Aquiline is a modest fourth-floor dwelling,
the furniture being of the simplest kind. But when he saw the girl's
beauty and great qualities, when he had known inexpressible and
unlooked-for happiness with her, he began to dote upon her; and longed
to adorn his idol. Then Aquilina's toilette was so comically out of
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