| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: was her seventh heaven; and she didn't ask much of his liking--she
only asked of it to reach the point of his not going away because
of her own. He had at times to be away for weeks; he had to lead
lets life; he had to travel--there were places to which he was
constantly wiring for "rooms": all this she granted him, forgave
him; in fact, in the long run, literally blessed and thanked him
for. If he had to lead his life, that precisely fostered his
leading it so much by telegraph: therefore the benediction was to
come in when he could. That was all she asked--that he shouldn't
wholly deprive her.
Sometimes she almost felt that he couldn't have deprived her even
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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 Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: seemed to notice her, and shortly after we were summoned to the
tea-table: in those parts it was customary to sit to the table at
tea-time on all occasions, and make a meal of it, for we dined
early. On taking my seat, I had Rose on one side of me and an
empty chair on the other.
'May I sit by you?' said a soft voice at my elbow.
'If you like,' was the reply; and Eliza slipped into the vacant
chair; then, looking up in my face with a half-sad, half-playful
smile, she whispered, - 'You're so stern, Gilbert.'
I handed down her tea with a slightly contemptuous smile, and said
nothing, for I had nothing to say.
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