| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: looked upon the pair of flushed and breathless culprits, the
pleasant human instinct of the matchmaker softened his heart.
'Well, I call that cool,' he repeated; 'you seem to count very
securely upon Uncle Ned. But look here, Gid, I thought I had told
you to keep away?'
'To keep away from Maidenhead,' replied Gid. 'But how should I
expect to find you here?'
'There is something in that,' Mr Bloomfield admitted. 'You see I
thought it better that even you should be ignorant of my address;
those rascals, the Finsburys, would have wormed it out of you.
And just to put them off the scent I hoisted these abominable
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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 Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: a captaincy after one more campaign.
Carter now outlined the
peril of the cat tribe, and was rewarded by deep-throated purrs
of gratitude from all sides. Consulting with the generals, he
prepared a plan of instant action which involved marching at once
upon the Zoog council and other known strongholds of Zoogs; forestalling
their surprise attacks and forcing them to terms before the mobilization
of their army of invasion. Thereupon without a moment's loss that
great ocean of cats flooded the enchanted wood and surged around
the council tree and the great stone circle. Flutterings rose
to panic pitch as the enemy saw the newcomers and there was very
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