| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: about the huts, and went off naked with only their blankets and the
ammunition on their heads. A nigger man met them twenty miles off, and he
said they were skooting up for Lo Magundi's country as fast as they could
go.
"And do you know," said Peter, striking his knee, and looking impressively
across the fire at the stranger; "what I'm as sure of as that I'm sitting
here? It's that that nigger I caught at my hut, that day, was her nigger
husband! He'd come to fetch her that time; and when she saw she couldn't
get away without our catching her, she got the cartridges for him!" Peter
paused impressively between the words. "And now she's gone back to him.
It's for him she's taken that ammunition!"
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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 Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: she gave her young body. Exquisitely pretty, too.
She sat down on Elizabeth's bed with a sigh.
"I really don't know what to do with father," she said. "He flies
off at a tangent over the smallest things. Elizabeth dear, can you
lend me twenty dollars? I'll get my allowance on Tuesday."
"I can give you ten."
"Well, ask mother for the rest, won't you? You needn't say it's
for me. I'll give it to you Tuesday."
"I'm not going to mother, Nina. She has had a lot of expenses this
month."
"Then I'll borrow it from Wallie Sayre," Nina said, accepting her
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