| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: the replica of the other in everything except color. Lloyd's eyes were black;
Paul's were blue. Under stress of excitement, the blood coursed olive in the
face of Lloyd, crimson in the face of Paul. But outside this matter of
coloring they were as like as two peas. Both were high-strung, prone to
excessive tension and endurance, and they lived at concert pitch.
But there was a trio involved in this remarkable friendship, and the third was
short, and fat, and chunky, and lazy, and, loath to say, it was I. Paul and
Lloyd seemed born to rivalry with each other, and I to be peacemaker between
them. We grew up together, the three of us, and full often have I received the
angry blows each intended for the other. They were always competing, striving
to outdo each other, and when entered upon some such struggle there was no
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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 Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: very little of Sir Richmond for a time except through the
newspapers, which contained frequent allusions to the
Committee. Someone told him that Sir Richmond had been
staying at Ruan in Cornwall where Martin Leeds had a cottage,
and someone else had met him at Bath on his way, he said, in
his car from Cornwall to a conference with Sir Peter Davies
in Glamorganshire.
But in the interim Dr. Martineau had the pleasure of meeting
Lady Hardy at a luncheon party. He was seated next to her and
he found her a very pleasing and sympathetic person indeed.
She talked to him freely and simply of her husband and of the
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