| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: their violation involves the sad and accidental end of the
violator, it is another matter. Well now, do you accept?'
'I accept.'
'Good. Your baggage I suppose is at the inn. I will send porters
to discharge your score and bring it here. No need for you to go,
nephew, let us stop and drink another glass of wine; the sooner we
grow intimate the better, nephew.'
It was thus that first I became acquainted with Senor Andres de
Fonseca, my benefactor, the strangest man whom I have ever known.
Doubtless any person reading this history would think that I, the
narrator, was sowing a plentiful crop of troubles for myself in
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: diminished in number there will only be a few judges sitting in each
court,[14] with the further consequence that in dealing with so small
a body of judges it will be easier for a litigant to present an
invulnerable front[15] to the court, and to bribe[16] the whole body,
to the great detriment of justice.[17]
[13] See Grote, "H. G." v. 514, 520; Machiavelli, "Disc. s. Livio," i.
7.
[14] Reading with Sauppe, {anagke toinun, ean me} [for the vulgate
{ean men oliga k.t.l.}] {oliga poiontai dikasteria, oligoi en
ekasto esontai to dikasterio}. Or, adopting Weiske's emendation,
{ean men polla poiontai dikasteria k.t.l.} Translate, "Then, if by
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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 Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: glance he gave, one little smile at parting - it was but for a
moment; but therein I read, or thought I read, a meaning that
kindled in my heart a brighter flame of hope than had ever yet
arisen.
'I would have sent the footman back for you, Miss Grey, if you'd
waited a moment - you needn't have taken Mr. Weston's umbrella,'
observed Rosalie, with a very unamiable cloud upon her pretty face.
'I would have come without an umbrella, but Mr. Weston offered me
the benefit of his, and I could not have refused it more than I did
without offending him,' replied I, smiling placidly; for my inward
happiness made that amusing, which would have wounded me at another
Agnes Grey |
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 Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: at the wrist!"
Lathers's hand dropped. All the color was out of his face, his
lip quivering.
"Whoever said I said a word against you, Mrs. Grogan, is a--liar."
It was the last resort of a cowardly nature.
"Stop lyin' to me, Pete Lathers! If there's anythin' in this
world I hate, it's a liar. Ye said it, and ye know ye said it.
Ye want that drunken loafer Dan McGaw to get me work. Ye've been
at it all summer, an' ye think I haven't watched ye; but I have.
And ye say I don't pay full wages, and have got a lot of boys to
do men's work, an' oughter be over me tubs. Now let me tell
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