| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: his lips, 'What's the row?' said he, in a phantom voice.
The din of that devil's smithy still thundered in their ears.
'Let us get away from that,' Morris cried, and pointed to the
vomit of steam that still spouted from the broken engines. And
the pair helped each other up, and stood and quaked and wavered
and stared about them at the scene of death.
Just then they were approached by a party of men who had already
organized themselves for the purposes of rescue.
'Are you hurt?' cried one of these, a young fellow with the sweat
streaming down his pallid face, and who, by the way he was
treated, was evidently the doctor.
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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 Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: you'd find my department of the premises cosier, so to speak." He
nudged Bertie. "Do you boys guess it's too early in the season for a
silver-fizz?"
We must not wholly forget Oscar in Cambridge. During the afternoon he
had not failed in his punctuality; two more neat witnesses to this lay
on the door-mat beneath the letter-slit of Billy's room, And at the
appointed hour after dinner a third joined them, making five. John
found these cards when he came home to go to bed, and picked them up and
stuck them ornamentally in Billy's looking-glass, as a greeting when
Billy should return, The eight o'clock visit was the last that Oscar
paid to the locked door, He remained through the evening in his own
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