| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: they scarce intermitted to gaze with curiosity upon the stranger.
A third was filled with Lowland gentlemen and officers, who
seemed also in attendance; and, lastly, the presence-chamber of
the Marquis himself showed him attended by a levee which marked
his high importance.
This apartment, the folding doors of which were opened for the
reception of Captain Dalgetty, was a long gallery, decorated with
tapestry and family portraits, and having a vaulted ceiling of
open wood-work, the extreme projections of the beams being richly
carved and gilded. The gallery was lighted by long lanceolated
Gothic casements, divided by heavy shafts, and filled with
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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 Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: apartment one day and put the whole case before him.
"'I will pay almost any price short of participation in actual
crime,' I told him, 'for a fortnight of freedom from that man's
presence. I can stand it no longer; I feel my reason slipping
from me. Have I not heard that there are in New York creatures
who are willing, on the payment of a certain stipulated sum, to
guarantee to chastise a person so as to disable him for a
definite period, without doing him permanent injury? You must
know some such disreputable characters. Procure me some wretches
of this sort!'
"Elmer replied that such creatures do, indeed, exist. He called
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