The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: been weeping. Canute placed a huge chair for him, and said
roughly,--
"Warm yourself."
Lena began to cry and moan afresh, begging the minister to
take her home. He looked helplessly at Canute. Canute said
simply,
"If you are warm now, you can marry us."
"My daughter, do you take this step of your own free will?"
asked the minister in a trembling voice.
"No, sir, I don't, and it is disgraceful he should force me
into it! I won't marry him."
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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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: dasn't go fur, or she'd a sent for me. And when it
was late in the day the people all went, and then I
come in and told her the noise and shooting waked up
me and "Sid," and the door was locked, and we
wanted to see the fun, so we went down the lightning-
rod, and both of us got hurt a little, and we didn't never
want to try THAT no more. And then I went on and
told her all what I told Uncle Silas before; and then
she said she'd forgive us, and maybe it was all right
enough anyway, and about what a body might expect
of boys, for all boys was a pretty harum-scarum lot as
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