| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: with all my might. All the time, with the certainty that
sometimes comes with excessive dread, I knew that such assurance
was folly, knew instinctively that the machine was removed out of
my reach. My breath came with pain. I suppose I covered the
whole distance from the hill crest to the little lawn, two miles
perhaps, in ten minutes. And I am not a young man. I cursed
aloud, as I ran, at my confident folly in leaving the machine,
wasting good breath thereby. I cried aloud, and none answered.
Not a creature seemed to be stirring in that moonlit world.
`When I reached the lawn my worst fears were realized. Not a
trace of the thing was to be seen. I felt faint and cold when I
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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 Pupil by Henry James: scandalously late, they were in time for all the dinner they were
likely to sit down to. Confusion reigned in the apartments of the
Moreens - very shabby ones this time, but the best in the house -
and before the interrupted service of the table, with objects
displaced almost as if there had been a scuffle and a great wine-
stain from an overturned bottle, Pemberton couldn't blink the fact
that there had been a scene of the last proprietary firmness. The
storm had come - they were all seeking refuge. The hatches were
down, Paula and Amy were invisible - they had never tried the most
casual art upon Pemberton, but he felt they had enough of an eye to
him not to wish to meet him as young ladies whose frocks had been
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