| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: more than his best; that's all I know, ma'am," said Jakes.
"But is it not a heavy load?" she said.
"Yes, yes, too heavy," he said; "but that's not my fault;
the foreman came just as we were starting, and would have
three hundredweight more put on to save him trouble,
and I must get on with it as well as I can."
He was raising the whip again, when the lady said:
"Pray, stop; I think I can help you if you will let me."
The man laughed.
"You see," she said, "you do not give him a fair chance;
he cannot use all his power with his head held back as it is
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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 Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: and when he had asked its nature - "Come with me to the house of one of
my enemies, and testify how I have carried myself this day," I told
him. "That will be the true service. For though he has sent me a
gallant adversary for the first, the thought in Mr. Simon's mind is
merely murder. There will be a second and then a third; and by what
you have seen of my cleverness with the cold steel, you can judge for
yourself what is like to be the upshot."
"And I would not like it myself, if I was no more of a man than what
you wass!" he cried. "But I will do you right, Palfour. Lead on!"
If I had walked slowly on the way into that accursed park my heels were
light enough on the way out. They kept time to a very good old air,
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