| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: been crushed.
As days passed Stewart remained at the ranch without his old
faithfulness to his work. Madeline was not moved to a kinder
frame of mind to see him wandering dejectedly around. It hurt
her, and because it hurt her she grew all the harder. Then she
could not help hearing snatches of conversation which
strengthened her suspicions that Stewart was losing his grip on
himself, that he would soon take the downward course again.
Verification of her own suspicion made it a belief, and belief
brought about a sharp conflict between her generosity and some
feeling that she could not name. It was not a question of
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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 Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: sank down on his knees at her bedside and sobbed upon her breast.
"Don't grieve," she said; "this is my share of the burden. If I
have taken too much from you and David, now comes the atonement.
Many things have grown clear to me. David was right when he said
that there was no blame. But my time is even less than the doctor
thinks: where is David? Can you not bid him come?"
"I can only call him with my heart," he answered. "And will he
hear me now, after nearly seven years?"
"Call, then!" she eagerly cried. "Call with all the strength of
your love for him and for me, and I believe he will hear you!"
The sun was just setting. Jonathan went to the great ash-tree,
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