| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: - or sold, if ye like it better. Five hundred pounds Lord Foxham
was to get for me. Hamley was the groom's name, and to-morrow,
Dick, of all days in the year, was I to be betrothed. Had it not
come to Sir Daniel, I had been wedded, sure - and never seen thee,
Dick - dear Dick!"
And here she took his hand, and kissed it, with the prettiest
grace; and Dick drew her hand to him and did the like.
"Well," she went on, "Sir Daniel took me unawares in the garden,
and made me dress in these men's clothes, which is a deadly sin for
a woman; and, besides, they fit me not. He rode with me to
Kettley, as ye saw, telling me I was to marry you; but I, in my
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: and the silence, that had been so full of romance to her, gave way to
the most delightful talk that she had ever known.
Something unfamiliar in the pose of the silent figure, something
still, solemn, significant about it, made her hold her breath. She
paused. Her thoughts were without bitterness. She was surprised by her
own quiet and confidence. She came back silently, and sat once more by
Katharine's side. Mary had no wish to speak. In the silence she seemed
to have lost her isolation; she was at once the sufferer and the
pitiful spectator of suffering; she was happier than she had ever
been; she was more bereft; she was rejected, and she was immensely
beloved. Attempt to express these sensations was vain, and, moreover,
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: business, and election to the club, these little festivals have
become common. He picks up a few fellows in the smoking-room--all
men of Attic wit--myself, for instance, if he has the luck to
find me disengaged; a string of hansoms may be observed (by Her
Majesty) bowling gaily through St James's Park; and in a quarter
of an hour the party surrounds one of the best appointed boards
in London.
But at the time of which we write the house in the King's Road
(let us still continue to call it No. 233) was kept very quiet;
when Michael entertained guests it was at the halls of Nichol or
Verrey that he would convene them, and the door of his private
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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 Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: Mizzi had been cross and fretful, and the sight of the
familiar scarlet and black and white, and the great winged
cap seemed to soothe her.
"Otti!" Fanny exclaimed. "You gorgeous creature! What is
it? A dress rehearsal?" Otti got the import, if not the
English.
"So gehen wir im Wien," she explained, and struck a killing
pose.
"Everybody? All the nurses? Alle?"
"Aber sure," Otti displayed her half dozen English words
whenever possible.
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