| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: He put her back with trembling hands. "Nothing that I say of
myself can degrade you. We're on different levels."
"I'm on yours, whatever it is!"
He lifted his head and their gaze flowed together.
XIV
The great renewals take effect as imperceptibly as the first
workings of spring. Glennard, though he felt himself brought
nearer to his wife, was still, as it were, hardly within speaking
distance. He was but laboriously acquiring the rudiments of their
new medium of communication; and he had to grope for her through
the dense fog of his humiliation, the distorting vapor against
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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: drove him out of his mind.
While the baby was still tiny, the father's temper had become
so irritable that it was not to be trusted. The child had only to
give a little trouble when the man began to bully. A little more,
and the hard hands of the collier hit the baby. Then Mrs. Morel
loathed her husband, loathed him for days; and he went out and drank;
and she cared very little what he did. Only, on his return,
she scathed him with her satire.
The estrangement between them caused him, knowingly or unknowingly,
grossly to offend her where he would not have done.
William was only one year old, and his mother was proud of him,
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