| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: the source of which lay in her, was, to her eyes, another proof of
love.
"How pale you are!" she said to him when they reached the door of the
house.
"Oh! Ginevra, if it concerned my life only!--"
Though Bartolomeo had been notified by his wife of the formal
presentation Ginevra was to make of her lover, he would not advance to
meet him, but remained seated in his usual arm-chair, and the
sternness of his brow was awful.
"Father," said Ginevra, "I bring you a person you will no doubt be
pleased to see,--a soldier who fought beside the Emperor at Mont-
|
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 Pupil by Henry James: sitting on the winter days in the galleries of the Louvre, so
splendidly ironical to the homeless, as if for the advantage of the
calorifere. They joked about it sometimes: it was the sort of
joke that was perfectly within the boy's compass. They figured
themselves as part of the vast vague hand-to-mouth multitude of the
enormous city and pretended they were proud of their position in it
- it showed them "such a lot of life" and made them conscious of a
democratic brotherhood. If Pemberton couldn't feel a sympathy in
destitution with his small companion - for after all Morgan's fond
parents would never have let him really suffer - the boy would at
least feel it with him, so it came to the same thing. He used
|
