| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: him. Go! for God's sake, leave me!"
"You are lost, then,--and I have ruined you!"
"Come off, now or never," cried Amyas, clutching him by the arm,
and dragging him away like a child.
"You forgive me?" cried he.
"Forgive you?" and she burst into tears again.
Frank burst into tears also.
"Let me go back, and die with her--Amyas!--my oath!--my honor!" and
he struggled to turn back.
Amyas looked back too, and saw her standing calmly, with her hands
folded across her breast, awaiting Eustace and the servants; and he
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: NUM 15:39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon
it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them ; and
that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye
use to go a whoring:
NUM 15:40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy
unto your God.
NUM 15:41 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of
Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
NUM 16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of
Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of
Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: I came unto your court for honour's cause,
And not to be a rebel to her state;
And he that otherwise accounts of me,
This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy.
SIMONIDES.
No?
Here comes my daughter, she can witness it.
[Enter Thaisa.]
PERICLES.
Then, as you are as virtuous as fair,
Resolve your angry father, if my tongue
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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 Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: feast on Monday.--I cannot get the words of that cankered auld
cripple deil's-buckie out o' my head--the least thing makes me
dread some ill news.--O, Killbuck, man! were there nae deer and
goats in the country besides, but ye behoved to gang and worry
his creature, by a' other folk's?"
By this time Annaple, with a brow like a tragic volume, had
hobbled towards him, and caught his horse by the bridle. The
despair in her look was so evident as to deprive even him of the
power of asking the cause. "O my bairn!" she cried, "gang na
forward--gang na forward--it's a sight to kill onybody, let alane
thee."
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