| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: great teacher."
"Suffered? Yes, I know you did, in Italy. But I have liked to feel
that after your arrival in France--"
"Always; I have always suffered," she said in a voice of emotion. "I
was not born under a happy star."
"That 'always' seems like a reproach to me," said Sallenauve, "and yet
I do not know what wrong I can have done you."
"You have done me no wrong; the harm was there!" she cried, striking
her breast,--"within me!"
"Probably some foolish fancy, such as that of leaving my house
suddenly, because your mistaken sense of honor made you think yourself
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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 The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy: dark hair free from any powder. Lord Grenville--Foreign Secretary of
State--paid him marked, though frigid deference.
Here and there, dotted about among distinctly English types of
beauty, one or two foreign faces stood out in marked contrast: the
haughty aristocratic cast of countenance of the many French royalist
EMIGRES who, persecuted by the relentless, revolutionary faction of
their country, had found a peaceful refuge in England. On these faces
sorrow and care were deeply writ; the women especially paid but little
heed, either to the music or to the brilliant audience; no doubt their
thoughts were far away with husband, brother, son maybe, still in
peril, or lately succumbed to a cruel fate.
The Scarlet Pimpernel |
