| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: poet's conversation; near neighbours or not, they were much
together and Villon made no secret of his court, and suffered
himself to believe that his feeling was repaid in kind. This
may have been an error from the first, or he may have
estranged her by subsequent misconduct or temerity. One can
easily imagine Villon an impatient wooer. One thing, at
least, is sure: that the affair terminated in a manner
bitterly humiliating to Master Francis. In presence of his
lady-love, perhaps under her window and certainly with her
connivance, he was unmercifully thrashed by one Noe le Joly -
beaten, as he says himself, like dirty linen on the washing-
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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 Herland by Charlotte Gilman: were deeply wise--that we realized more and more; and for clear
reasoning, for real brain scope and power they were A No. 1, but
there were a lot of things they did not know.
They had the evenest tempers, the most perfect patience and
good nature--one of the things most impressive about them all
was the absence of irritability. So far we had only this group to
study, but afterward I found it a common trait.
We had gradually come to feel that we were in the hands of
friends, and very capable ones at that--but we couldn't form any
opinion yet of the general level of these women.
"We want you to teach us all you can," Somel went on, her
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