| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: "I have no shame of mine," said the younger brother. "There it is,
and look in it."
So the elder brother looked in the mirror, and he was sore amazed;
for he was an old man, and his hair was white upon his head; and he
sat down in the hall and wept aloud.
"Now," said the younger brother, "see what a fool's part you have
played, that ran over all the world to seek what was lying in our
father's treasury, and came back an old carle for the dogs to bark
at, and without chick or child. And I that was dutiful and wise
sit here crowned with virtues and pleasures, and happy in the light
of my hearth."
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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 White Moll by Frank L. Packard: It was five minutes past one when, stealing silently along a black
lane, and counting against the skyline the same number of buildings
she had previously counted on the street from the corner, she
entered an equally black yard, and reached the back door of
Skarbolov's little store. She felt out with her hands and found
the padlock, and her fingers pressed on the link in the chain that
Gypsy Nan had described. It gave readily. She slipped it free,
and opened the door. There was faint, almost inaudible, protesting
creak from the hinges. She caught her breath quickly. Had anybody
heard it? It - it had seemed like a cannon shot. And then her lips
curled in sudden self-contempt. Who was there to hear it?
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