| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: But Ogu was a bushman, lacking knowledge of the almost universal
beche-de-mer English, and half a dozen of his fellows wrangled to
explain.
"There are only two or three more," Joan said to Sheldon, "and then
we're done. But you haven't told me that you are not angry."
Sheldon looked into her clear eyes as she favoured him with a
direct, untroubled gaze that threatened, he knew from experience,
to turn teasingly defiant on an instant's notice. And as he looked
at her it came to him that he had never half-anticipated the
gladness her return would bring to him.
"I was angry," he said deliberately. "I am still angry, very
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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 My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: accompanied by his Dutch acquaintance, with a party of his
friends, and two or three officers of the Scotch brigade. His
astonishment may be conceived when he saw his own brother-in-law,
a married man, on the point of leading to the altar the innocent
and beautiful creature upon whom he was about to practise a base
and unmanly deceit. He proclaimed his villainy on the spot, and
the marriage was interrupted, of course. But against the opinion
of more thinking men, who considered Sir Philip Forester as
having thrown himself out of the rank of men of honour, Captain
Falconer admitted him to the privilege of such, accepted a
challenge from him, and in the rencounter received a mortal
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