The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: duty to-day."
An architect and builder from the next State had lately ventured to
set up a small business in this unpromising village, and his sign
had now been hanging out a week. Not a customer yet; he was a
discouraged man, and sorry he had come. But his weather changed
suddenly now. First one and then another chief citizen's wife said
to him privately:
"Come to my house Monday week--but say nothing about it for the
present. We think of building."
He got eleven invitations that day. That night he wrote his
daughter and broke off her match with her student. He said she
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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 Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: truants' names. The class is all wrong. "One is barefoot,
another's shoe is burst, another cries, another writes home. Then
comes the rod, the sound of blows, and howls; and the day passes in
tears." "Then mass, then another lesson, then more blows; there is
hardly time to eat." I have no space to finish the picture of the
stupid misery which, Buchanan says, was ruining his intellect, while
it starved his body. However, happier days came. Gilbert Kennedy,
Earl of Cassilis, who seems to have been a noble young gentleman,
took him as his tutor for the next five years; and with him he went
back to Scotland.
But there his plain speaking got him, as it did more than once
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