| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: "That Nan Bellayne was too much for him, and that she and her sister could
come out and get her pay and the freedom of the Loops, to boot."
"One thing, more," he interrupted her thanks at the door, as on her previous
visit. "Now that you've shown the stuff you're made of, I should esteem it,
ahem, a privilege to give you a line myself to the INTELLIGENCER people."
THE MINIONS OF MIDAS (Copyright, 1901, By Pearson Publishing Company)
WADE ATSHELER is dead--dead by his own hand. To say that this was entirely
unexpected by the small coterie which knew him, would be to say an untruth;
and yet never once had we, his intimates, ever canvassed the idea. Rather had
we been prepared for it in some incomprehensible subconscious way. Before the
perpetration of the deed, its possibility is remotest from our thoughts; but
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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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: school by stopping up the chimney, broke into the schoolhouse at
night, in spite of its formidable fastenings of withe and window
stakes, and turned everything topsy-turvy, so that the poor
schoolmaster began to think all the witches in the country held
their meetings there. But what was still more annoying, Brom took
all Opportunities of turning him into ridicule in presence of his
mistress, and had a scoundrel dog whom he taught to whine in the
most ludicrous manner, and introduced as a rival of Ichabod's, to
instruct her in psalmody.
In this way matters went on for some time, without producing
any material effect on the relative situations of the contending
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