| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: him the hundred francs he had just given her son.
"Ah, monsieur!" she said, "the blessings of a mother will follow you
wherever you go, and in all your enterprises."
Poor woman! she now had the supreme delight of seeing her son well-
dressed, and she gave him a gold watch, the price of which she had
saved by economy, as the reward of his good conduct.
"You draw for the conscription next week," she said, "and to prepare,
in case you get a bad number, I have been to see your uncle Cardot. He
is very much pleased with you; and so delighted to know you are a
second clerk at twenty, and to hear of your successful examination at
the law-school, that he promised me the money for a substitute. Are
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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 A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: of them," and went off in the direction of Dyson's house.
Brassington swore positively that Peace was the stranger who had
accosted him that night, and Mr. Lockwood failed to shake him in
his evidence. Nor could Mr. Lockwood persuade the surgeon who
was called to Dyson at the time of his death to admit that the
marks on the nose and chin of the dead man could have been caused
by a blow; they were merely abrasions of the skin caused by the
wounded man falling to the ground.
Evidence was then given as to threats uttered by Peace against
the Dysons in the July of 1876, and as to his arrest at
Blackheath in the October of 1878. The revolver taken from Peace
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