| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "Happy the country," said Bessie Alden, "where even people's
prejudices are so elevated!"
"Well, after all," observed Lord Lambeth, "I don't know that I am
such a fool as you are trying to make me out."
"I said nothing so rude as that; but I must repeat that
you are disappointing."
"My dear Miss Alden," exclaimed the young man, "I am the best
fellow in the world!"
"Ah, if it were not for that!" said Bessie Alden with a smile.
Mrs. Westgate had a good many more friends in London than
she pretended, and before long she had renewed acquaintance
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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 Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: makes me doubt if what you say can be true."
"What's that?" I asked, thankful that he had gone away from the
subject of how the poison could have been introduced into the
coco.
"Why, the fact that Bauerstein demanded a post-mortem. He
needn't have done so. Little Wilkins would have been quite
content to let it go at heart disease."
"Yes," I said doubtfully. "But we don't know. Perhaps he
thought it safer in the long run. Some one might have talked
afterwards. Then the Home Office might have ordered exhumation.
The whole thing would have come out, then, and he would have been
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
