| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: rustling in the breeze, and where the swift kingfishers dart
about like flashes of blue lightning.
The whole family looked at them with great respect.
"They are indeed two swell boats," Monsieur Dufour repeated
gravely, and he examined them closely, commenting on them like a
connoisseur. He had been in the habit of rowing in his younger
days, he said, and when he had that in his hands--and he went
through the action of pulling the oars--he did not care a fig for
anybody. He had beaten more than one Englishman formerly at the
Joinville regattas. He grew quite excited at last, and offered to
make a bet that in a boat like that he could row six miles an
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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 Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: halted again.
"I seen you ain't no ranger," called the rider, "an' shore I
ain't none."
He laughed loudly, as if he had made a joke.
"How'd you know I wasn't a ranger?" asked Duane, curiously.
Somehow he had instantly divined that his horseman was no
officer, or even a rancher trailing stolen stock.
"Wal," said the fellow, starting his horse forward at a walk,
"a ranger'd never git ready to run the other way from one man."
He laughed again. He was small and wiry, slouchy of attire, and
armed to the teeth, and he bestrode a fine bay horse. He had
The Lone Star Ranger |
