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: must I?"
"Do it?" Ruth's eyes sought her cousin's white, excited face in the
quasi-darkness. "But have you thought of what it will mean? Have you
thought of the poor people that will perish unless the Duke is taken and
this rebellion brought to an end?"
"Thought of it?" repeated Diana witheringly. "Not I. I have thought
that Mr. Wilding is here and like to have his throat cut before an hour
is past."
"Tell me, are you sure of this?" asked Ruth.
"I have it from your husband's own lips," Diana answered, and told her
in a few words of her meeting with Mr. Wilding.
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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 Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: you attach so much importance to a dishpan?"
"It is the greatest treasure I possess," replied the woman. "It
belonged to my mother and to all my grandmothers since the beginning
of time. It is, I believe, the very oldest thing in all the Yip
Country--or was while it was there--and," she added, dropping her
voice to an awed whisper, "it has magic powers!"
"In what way?" inquired the Frogman, seeming to be surprised at this
statement.
"Whoever has owned that dishpan has been a good cook, for one thing.
No one else is able to make such good cookies as I have cooked, as you
and all the Yips know. Yet the very morning after my dishpan was
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