| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart: of a Christmas-Eve in a home that he had earned, of a tree, of a
girl-woman, of a still and holy night, of a child.
"Nur das traute, hoch heilige Paar Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar
Schlaf' in himmlischer Ruh', Schlaf' in himmlischer Ruh'," they
sang.
There was real festivity at the old lodge of Maria Theresa that
night.
Jimmy had taken his full place in the household. The best room,
which had been Anna's, had been given up to him. Here, carefully
tended, with a fire all day in the stove, Jimmy reigned from the
bed. To him Harmony brought her small puzzles and together they
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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 Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: she was at times unpleasantly familiar. When asked about the
patient's health, she would dolorously shake her head, and
declare that the poor gentleman was in a pitiful condition.
Yet somehow Somerset had early begun to entertain the notion
that his complaint was other than bodily. The ill-looking
birds that gathered to the house, the strange noises that
sounded from the drawing-room in the dead hours of night, the
careless attendance and intemperate habits of the nurse, the
entire absence of correspondence, the entire seclusion of Mr.
Jones himself, whose face, up to that hour, he could not have
sworn to in a court of justice - all weighed unpleasantly
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