| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Listen, mademoiselle," he said later. "You cannot do all the kind
work of the world. But you can do your part. And you will start by
caring for only such as are wounded or ill. The others can go on. But
every night some twenty or thirty, or even more, will come to your door
- men slightly wounded or too weary to go on without a rest. And for
those there will be a chair by the fire, and something hot, or perhapps
a clean bandage. It sounds small? But in a month, think! You will
have given comfort to perhaps a thousand men. You - alone!"
"I - alone!" she said in a queer choking voice. "And what about you?
It is you who have made it possible."
But Henri was looking down the street to where the row of poplars hid
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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 The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: to him curious rather than serious. Certainly the mind was a
strange thing. He must read up on it. Now and then he stopped
Dick with a question, and Dick would break in on his narrative to
reply. Thus, once:
"You've said nothing to Elizabeth at all? About the walling off,
as you call it?"
"No. At first I was simply ashamed of it. I didn't want her to
get the idea that I wasn't normal."
"I see."
"Now, as I tell you, I begin to think - I've told you that this
walling off is an unconscious desire to forget something too
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