| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: help regarding as an injury."
"Of course!" and Gordon, dropping his interested eyes, stared for some
moments at the carpet. "But it is n't true, then, that you discovered
her to be a coquette?"
"Ah, that 's another matter."
"You did discover it all the same?"
"Since you want the whole truth--I did!"
"How did you discover it?" Gordon asked, clinging to his right
of interrogation.
Bernard hesitated.
"You must remember that I saw a great deal of her."
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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 Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: and, besides, the organ is too heavy and severe
for an invalid. It would overwhelm you tonight."
"Not as you would know how to play it for me,"
urged Theron, pensively. "I feel as if good music to-night
would make me well again. I am really very ill and weak--
and unhappy!"
The girl seemed moved by the despairing note in his voice.
She invited him by a sympathetic gesture to lean even more
directly on her arm.
"Come home with me, and I'll play Chopin to you," she said,
in compassionate friendliness. "He is the real medicine
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