| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: gently, for he felt the danger of Philippe's excited hopes, and tried
to cast a salutary doubt upon them.
The colonel quivered; then he smiled, and made a motion of
incredulity. No one dared to oppose his wish, and within a very short
time he reached the old priory.
"Where is she?" he cried, on arriving.
"Hush!" said her uncle, "she is sleeping. See, here she is."
Philippe then saw the poor insane creature lying on a bench in the
sun. Her head was protected from the heat by a forest of hair which
fell in tangled locks over her face. Her arms hung gracefully to the
ground; her body lay easily posed like that of a doe; her feet were
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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 Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: happier days he would have chartered a cab; but these
luxuries were now denied him; and with what courage he could
muster he addressed himself to walk.
It was then the height of the season and the summer; the
weather was serene and cloudless; and as he paced under the
blinded houses and along the vacant streets, the chill of the
dawn had fled, and some of the warmth and all the brightness
of the July day already shone upon the city. He walked at
first in a profound abstraction, bitterly reviewing and
repenting his performances at whist; but as he advanced into
the labyrinth of the south-west, his ear was gradually
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