The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: didn't mind showing her embarrassment at all.
She blushed and laughed excitedly as she gave
Emil her hand, and looked delightedly at the
black velvet coat that brought out his fair skin
and fine blond head. Marie was incapable of
being lukewarm about anything that pleased
her. She simply did not know how to give a
half-hearted response. When she was de-
lighted, she was as likely as not to stand on
her tip-toes and clap her hands. If people
laughed at her, she laughed with them.
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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 Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: Gisburn--fond enough not to see her absurdity. It was his own
absurdity he seemed to be wincing under--his own attitude as an
object for garlands and incense.
"My dear, since I've chucked painting people don't say that stuff
about me--they say it about Victor Grindle," was his only
protest, as he rose from the table and strolled out onto the
sunlit terrace.
I glanced after him, struck by his last word. Victor Grindle
was, in fact, becoming the man of the moment--as Jack himself,
one might put it, had been the man of the hour. The younger
artist was said to have formed himself at my friend's feet, and I
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