| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: this step-brother."
"She does not know, sir. There was an ugly scandal in her family
before her birth. Her father turned his first wife and their son
out of his house on one and the same day. He had discovered that
she was deceiving him, and also that her son, who was studying
medicine at the time, had stolen money from his safe. What he had
discovered about his wife made Langen doubt whether the boy was his
son at all. There was a terrible scene, and the two disappeared
from their home forever. The woman died soon after. The young man
went to Australia. He has never been heard of since and has probably
come to no good."
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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 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: in the child's toy, in the great tragedy, in the laws of the
tempest, or in the properties of energy or mass - certain that
whatever he touched, it was a part of life - and however he touched
it, there would flow for his happy constitution interest and
delight. 'All fables have their morals,' says Thoreau, 'but the
innocent enjoy the story.' There is a truth represented for the
imagination in these lines of a noble poem, where we are told, that
in our highest hours of visionary clearness, we can but
'see the children sport upon the shore
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.'
To this clearness Fleeming had attained; and although he heard the
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