The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: interest than his own.
"You know," quoth he, "the desperate enterprise to which I stand
committed. But it is a bargain between us that you do not betray me
nor that enterprise so long as I leave you rid of my presence.
"That is the bargain I propose," said she.
He looked at her a moment with hungry eyes, and she found his glance
almost more than she could bear, so strong was its appeal. Besides,
it may be that she was a thought beglamoured by the danger in which
he stood, which seemed to invest him with a certain heroic dignity.
"Ruth," he said at length, " it may well be that that which you desire
may speedily come to pass; it may well be that in the course of this
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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 To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: Blushes came with difficulty on her dead-white
complexion, under the negligently twisted opu-
lence of mahogany-coloured hair. Her father was
frankly carroty.
She had a full figure; a tired, unrefreshed face.
When Captain Hagberd vaunted the necessity and
propriety of a home and the delights of one's own
fireside, she smiled a little, with her lips only. Her
home delights had been confined to the nursing of
her father during the ten best years of her life.
A bestial roaring coming out of an upstairs win-
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