| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Felix ushered his sister into the gate. "Be very gracious,"
he said to her. But he saw the admonition was superfluous.
Eugenia was prepared to be gracious as only Eugenia could be.
Felix knew no keener pleasure than to be able to admire his
sister unrestrictedly; for if the opportunity was frequent,
it was not inveterate. When she desired to please she was to him,
as to every one else, the most charming woman in the world.
Then he forgot that she was ever anything else; that she was
sometimes hard and perverse; that he was occasionally afraid
of her. Now, as she took his arm to pass into the garden,
he felt that she desired, that she proposed, to please,
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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 Faith of Men by Jack London: tones:-
"Inwood, I've got an even five hundred here that says the print of
what you have just said is not in that paper."
The gambler looked at him in quizzical surprise. "Go 'way, child.
I don't want your money."
"I thought so," Pentfield sneered, returning to the game and laying
a couple of bets.
Nick Inwood's face flushed, and, as though doubting his senses, he
ran careful eyes over the print of a quarter of a column. Then be
turned on Lawrence Pentfield.
"Look here, Pentfield," he said, in a quiet, nervous manner; "I
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