| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: bathroom, and Dick was standing by the window looking out. He
turned.
"I'm here, Mr. Bassett, on rather a peculiar - " He stopped
and looked at Bassett. "I see. You were in my office about a
month ago, weren't you?"
"For a headache, yes." Bassett was very wary and watchful, but there
was no particular unfriendliness in his visitor's eyes.
"It never occurred to me that you might be Bassett," Dick said
gravely. "Never mind about that. Eat your breakfast. Do you mind
if I talk while you do it?"
"Will you have some coffee? I can get a glass from the bathroom.
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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 Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: philanthropists.
"The students kept the town lively and prosperous. Some stranger came
to town and started a faro bank over the Red Front livery stable, and
began to amass money in quantities. Me and Andy strolled up one night
and piked a dollar or two for sociability. There were about fifty of
our students there drinking rum punches and shoving high stacks of
blues and reds about the table as the dealer turned the cards up.
"'Why, dang it, Andy,' says I, 'these free-school-hunting, gander-
headed, silk-socked little sons of sap-suckers have got more money
than you and me ever had. Look at the rolls they're pulling out of
their pistol pockets?'
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