| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: rushed straight on to me. Already it was upon us, there was no
retreat from instant death, we had but escaped sacrifice to the
spirit of the god to be crushed to powder beneath the bulk of his
marble emblem. On he came while on high the Spaniards shouted in
triumph. His base had struck the stone side of the pyramid fifty
feet above us, now he whirled round and round in the air to strike
again within three paces of where we stood. I felt the solid
mountain shake beneath the blow, and next instant the air was
filled with huge fragments of marble, that whizzed over us and past
us as though a mine of powder had been fired beneath our feet,
tearing the rocks from their base. The god Tezcat had burst into a
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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 In the Cage by Henry James: "No, I won't; but I must leave you now," she went on as if not
hearing him.
"See here--see here!" He tried, from the bench, to take her hand
again.
But that definitely settled it for her: this would, after all, be
as bad as his asking her to supper. "You mustn't come with me--no,
no!"
He sank back, quite blank, as if she had pushed him. "I mayn't see
you home?"
"No, no; let me go." He looked almost as if she had struck him,
but she didn't care; and the manner in which she spoke--it was
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