The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: and again the little spinal shiver raced over her. She could not
look at his sardonic, evil face without fear, and she could not
look away without being aware of his eyes possessing her. What
was the use of courage against such a creature as this?
"Yes, I understand you take a good deal that isn't yours," she
retorted carelessly, her eyes on the arena.
"I make it mine when I take it," he answered coolly, admiring the
gameness which she wore as a suit of chain armor against his
thrusts.
"Isn't it a little dangerous sometimes?" her even voice
countered. "When you take what belongs to others you run a risk,
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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 In the Cage by Henry James: new friend, as she came to account him, were at all events
unrolled, and however much more she might have known she would
still have wished to go beyond. In fact she did go beyond; she
went quite far enough.
But she could none the less, even after a month, scarce have told
if the gentlemen who came in with him recurred or changed; and this
in spite of the fact that they too were always posting and wiring,
smoking in her face and signing or not signing. The gentlemen who
came in with him were nothing when he was there. They turned up
alone at other times--then only perhaps with a dim richness of
reference. He himself, absent as well as present, was all. He was
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