| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: sake, I think it will help me. I think I should be able to keep my faith."
"Oh, I will do anything you ask me to. You are so good and great."
"Oh, good and great!--if you knew! Now go, dear."
"I have not kept you from your work, have I?"
"No; I have not been working lately. Good-by, dear."
The younger woman went; and the elder knelt down by the chair, and wailed
like a little child when you have struck it and it does not dare to cry
loud.
A year after; it was early spring again.
The woman sat at her desk writing; behind her the fire burnt brightly. She
was writing a leading article on the causes which in differing peoples lead
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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 Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: stamped them on my brow - chemicals have sprinkled them upon
my locks! No, Mr. Somerset,' he resumed, after a moment's
pause, his voice still quivering with sensibility, 'you must
not suppose the dynamiter's life to be all gold. On the
contrary, you cannot picture to yourself the bloodshot vigils
and the staggering disappointments of a life like mine. I
have toiled (let us say) for months, up early and down late;
my bag is ready, my clock set; a daring agent has hurried
with white face to deposit the instrument of ruin; we await
the fall of England, the massacre of thousands, the yell of
fear and execration; and lo! a snap like that of a child's
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