The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: have it! If every relation I had in the world were to die tomorrow, I
would be quite happy if I still only had you! My darling, my love, why are
you so cold? Promise me not to love him any more. If you asked me to do
anything for you, I would do it, though it cost my life."
Em put her hand very gravely round his neck.
"I will never kiss him," she said, "and I will try not to love any one
else. But I do not know if I will be able."
"Oh, my darling, I think of you all night, all day. I think of nothing
else, love, nothing else," he said, folding his arms about her.
Em was a little conscience stricken; even that morning she had found time
to remember that in six months her cousin would come back from school, and
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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 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: despondency. I promise you, the stick was not idle; I think every
decent step that Modestine took must have cost me at least two
emphatic blows. There was not another sound in the neighbourhood
but that of my unwearying bastinado.
Suddenly, in the midst of my toils, the load once more bit the
dust, and, as by enchantment, all the cords were simultaneously
loosened, and the road scattered with my dear possessions. The
packing was to begin again from the beginning; and as I had to
invent a new and better system, I do not doubt but I lost half an
hour. It began to be dusk in earnest as I reached a wilderness of
turf and stones. It had the air of being a road which should lead
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