| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: I mean the things in her possession--have reference?"
"I daresay it is!" my companion exclaimed as if this were a very
happy suggestion. "I have never looked at any of those things."
"None of them? Then how do you know what they are?"
"I don't," said Miss Tita placidly. "I have never had them in my hands.
But I have seen them when she has had them out."
"Does she have them out often?"
"Not now, but she used to. She is very fond of them."
"In spite of their being compromising?"
"Compromising?" Miss Tita repeated as if she was ignorant of the meaning
of the word. I felt almost as one who corrupts the innocence of youth.
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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 Adventure by Jack London: stumbled out hastily, deathly sick, reeling into the sunshine and
clutching at the air for support.
"See if all are there," she called back faintly, and tottered
aimlessly on for a few steps, breathing the air in great draughts
and trying to forget the sight she had seen.
Upon Sheldon fell the unpleasant task of tallying the heads. They
were all there, nine of them, white men's heads, the faces of which
he had been familiar with when their owners had camped in Berande
compound and set up the poling-boats. Binu Charley, hugely
interested, lent a hand, turning the heads around for
identification, noting the hatchet-strokes, and remarking the
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