| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: seen a penny of old Frank's money. But still there's no gettin'
'round it, it was a scurvy trick and if you want to justify the end
by the means, it's none of my business and who am I to complain?
But just the same Suellen has been like a hornet ever since. I
don't think she cared much about old Frank but it kind of teched
her vanity and she's been sayin' as how you had good clothes and a
carriage and lived in Atlanta while she was buried here at Tara.
She does love to go callin' and to parties, you know, and wear
pretty clothes. I ain't blamin' her. Women are like that.
"Well, about a month ago I took her into Jonesboro and left her to
go callin' while I tended to business and when I took her home, she
Gone With the Wind |
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 Young Forester by Zane Grey: night."
"How so?" inquired Dick, quickly.
It did not take me long to relate the incident of the Mexican.
Dick looked like a thunder-cloud, but Jim swayed and shook with laughter.
"You knocked him off the roof? Wal, thet shore is dee-lightful. It shore
is!"
"Yes; and, Dick," I went on, breathlessly, "the Greaser followed me, and if
I hadn't missed the trail, I don't know what would have happened. Anyway,
he got here first."
"The Greaser trailed you?" interrupted Dick, sharply.
When I replied he glanced keenly at me. "How do you know?"
The Young Forester |
