| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: is not the ingenuous and tender-hearted poet whom we used to know;
and it is simply because he is trying to interfere on your behalf,
and because he imagines that he can discharge our debts (and this
from pride, my David), that I am afraid of him. Some fine clothes
have been sent from Paris for him, and five gold pieces in a
pretty purse. He gave the money to me, and we are living on it.
"We have one enemy the less. Your father has gone, thanks to
Petit-Claud. Petit-Claud unraveled his designs, and put an end to
them at once by telling him that you would do nothing without
consulting him, and that he (Petit-Claud) would not allow you to
concede a single point in the matter of the invention until you
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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 Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: ancient city.
Now as I leaned upon the wall and looked, I saw a man pass up the
steps beside me and go on into the shadow of the street. I took no
note of him till presently I heard a murmur of distant voices, and
turning my head I discovered that the man was in conversation with
a woman whom he had met at the head of the path that ran down to
the water-gate. Doubtless it was a lovers' meeting, and since such
sights are of interest to all, and more especially to the young, I
watched the pair. Soon I learned that there was little of
tenderness in this tryst, at least on the part of the gallant, who
drew continually backwards toward me as though he would seek the
Montezuma's Daughter |
