| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: letter my valet will bring you. Adieu, Marie."
Raoul left the house after again straining the countess to his heart
with dreadful pressure, leaving her stupefied and distressed.
"What is the matter, my dear?" said Madame d'Espard, coming to look
for her. "What has Monsieur Nathan been saying to you? He has just
left us in a most melodramatic way. Perhaps you are too reasonable or
too unreasonable with him."
The countess got into a hackney-coach and was driven rapidly to the
newspaper office. At that hour the huge apartments which they occupied
in an old mansion in the rue Feydeau were deserted; not a soul was
there but the watchman, who was greatly surprised to see a young and
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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 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: His mother looked at him. He had forgotten Miriam now. He told
her about the girls in the Willow Tree. Mrs. Morel looked at him.
It seemed unreal, his gaiety. At the back of it was too much horror
and misery.
"Now have some supper," she said very gently.
Afterwards he said wistfully:
"She never thought she'd have me, mother, not from the first,
and so she's not disappointed."
"I'm afraid," said his mother, "she doesn't give up hopes
of you yet."
"No," he said, "perhaps not."
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