| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: beacon in so forlorn a situation, with the sea not only raging
under them, but occasionally falling from a great height upon
the roof of their temporary lodging, without even the
attending vessel in view to afford the least gleam of hope in
the event of any accident. It is true that they now had the
masonry of the lighthouse to resort to, which, no doubt,
lessened the actual danger of their situation; but the
building was still without a roof, and the deadlights, or
storm-shutters, not being yet fitted, the windows of the lower
story were stove in and broken, and at high-water the sea ran
in considerable quantities out at the entrance door.
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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 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: There was a sort of scornful forbearance in the woman's tone
that made Paul know she was mollified.
"But DO have some!" he said to Clara.
She looked up at him with her grey eyes, humiliated and lonely.
"No thanks!" she said.
"Why won't you?" he answered carelessly.
The blood was beating up like fire in his veins. Mrs. Radford
sat down again, large and impressive and aloof. He left Clara
altogether to attend to the mother.
"They say Sarah Bernhardt's fifty," he said.
"Fifty! She's turned sixty!" came the scornful answer.
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