| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: Ask my man Tom, else."
"Nay, but this is white magic," said Dick. "It doth naught with
the devil; only the powers of numbers, herbs, and planets."
"Ay, ay," said Pirret; "'tis but white magic, gossip. There is no
sin therein, I do assure you. But proceed, good youth. This spell
- in what should it consist?"
"Nay, that I will incontinently show you," answered Dick. "Have ye
there the ring ye took from my finger? Good! Now hold it forth
before you by the extreme finger-ends, at the arm's-length, and
over against the shining of these embers. 'Tis so exactly. Thus,
then, is the spell."
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: nigger and a white man were killed. Mr. Wilkes was the ringleader
in it."
"Tonight?" Rhett began to laugh. He laughed so hard that he sat
down on the sofa and put his head in his hands. "Not tonight,
Tom," he said when he could speak. "These two have been with me
tonight--ever since eight o'clock when they were supposed to be at
the meeting."
"With you, Rhett? But--" A frown came over the captain's forehead
and he looked uncertainly at the snoring Ashley and his weeping
wife. "But--where were you?"
"I don't like to say," and Rhett shot a look of drunken cunning at
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: Enticing them to drink, and on the flowers
The plenteous spring a thousand streams down pours,
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All which, united in the springing grass,
Ate forth a channel through the tender green
And underneath eternal shade did pass,
With murmur shrill, cold, pure, and scantly seen;
Yet so transparent, that perceived was
The bottom rich, and sands that golden been,
And on the brims the silken grass aloft
Proffered them seats, sweet, easy, fresh and soft.
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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 Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: things," said Mrs. Ramboat....
I and Marion sat down together on a little seat under some trees
at the top of Putney Hill, and I came to my point abruptly.
"Look here, Marion," I said, "are you going to marry me or are
you not?"
She smiled at me. "Well," she said, "we're engaged--aren't we?"
"That can't go on for ever. Will you marry me next week?"
She looked me in the face. "We can't," she said.
"You promised to marry me when I had three hundred a year."
She was silent for a space. "Can't we go on for a time as we
are? We COULD marry on three hundred a year. But it means a
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