| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: downcast for a mile or two.
But presently they came to a shrine, where a Fakeer performed
miracles.
"Ah!" said the priest, "here are the true grounds of faith. The
peacock was but an adminicle. This is the base of our religion."
And he beat upon his breast, and groaned like one with colic.
"Now to me," said the virtuous person, "all this is as little to
the purpose as the peacock. I believe because I see the right is
great and must prevail; and this Fakeer might carry on with his
conjuring tricks till doomsday, and it would not play bluff upon a
man like me."
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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 Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: play-table three months ago."
"Do you play? I don't like that, Raoul."
"I never play, monsieur; it was M. le Prince who ordered me
to hold his cards at Chantilly -- one night when a courier
came to him from the king. I won, and M. le Prince commanded
me to take the stakes."
"Is that a practice in the household, Raoul?" asked Athos
with a frown.
"Yes, monsieur; every week M. le Prince affords, upon one
occasion or another, a similar advantage to one of his
gentlemen. There are fifty gentlemen in his highness's
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