| 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: and stared about them at the scene of death.
Just then they were approached by a party of men who had already
organized themselves for the purposes of rescue.
'Are you hurt?' cried one of these, a young fellow with the sweat
streaming down his pallid face, and who, by the way he was
treated, was evidently the doctor.
Morris shook his head, and the young man, nodding grimly, handed
him a bottle of some spirit.
'Take a drink of that,' he said; 'your friend looks as if he
needed it badly. We want every man we can get,' he added;
'there's terrible work before us, and nobody should shirk. If you
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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 War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: had turned now, following remotely.
Suddenly he stumbled and fell; his immediate pursuer
went headlong, and he rose to his feet to find himself with
a couple of antagonists again. He would have had little
chance against them had not the slender lady very pluckily
pulled up and returned to his help. It seems she had had a
revolver all this time, but it had been under the seat when
she and her companion were attacked. She fired at six yards'
distance, narrowly missing my brother. The less courageous
of the robbers made off, and his companion followed him,
cursing his cowardice. They both stopped in sight down the
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