| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Is worth for me a thousand yesterdays.
VITTORIA.
Dear Julia! Friendship has its jealousies
As well as love. Who waits for you at Fondi?
JULIA.
A friend of mine and yours; a friend and friar.
You have at Naples your Fra Bernadino;
And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano,
The famous artist, who has come from Rome
To paint my portrait. That is not a sin.
VITTORIA.
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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 Enemies of Books by William Blades: the leaves, making it, although still imperfect, a fine book."
Referring to the carelessness exhibited by some custodians
of Parish Registers,
Mr. Noble, who has had great experience in such matters, writes:--
"A few months ago I wanted a search made of the time of Charles I in one
of the most interesting registers in a large town (which shall be nameless)
in England. I wrote to the custodian of it, and asked him kindly to do
the search for me, and if he was unable to read the names to get some one
who understood the writing of that date to decipher the entries for me.
I did not have a reply for a fortnight, but one morning the postman brought
me a very large unregistered book-packet, which I found to be the original
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