| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: party at Mrs. Lyell's, where I was introduced to Mrs. Somerville.
She has resided for the last nine years abroad, chiefly at Venice,
but has now come to London and taken a house very near us. . . . Her
daughter told me that nothing could exceed the ease and simplicity
with which her literary occupations were carried on. She is just
publishing a book upon Natural Geography without regard to political
boundaries. She writes principally before she rises in the morning
on a little piece of board, with her inkstand on a table by her
side. After she leaves her room she is as much at leisure as other
people, but if an idea strikes her she takes her little board into a
corner or window and writes quietly for a short time and returns to
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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 White Moll by Frank L. Packard: was so late. At eleven, Danglar had said. Danglar would be growing
restive! She took the elevated. If she could risk the protection
of her veil in the Silver Sphinx, she could risk it equally in an
elevated train!
But, in spite of the elevated, it was, she knew, well on towards
half past eleven when she finally came down the street in front of
the Silver Sphinx. From under her veil, she glanced, half curiously,
half in a sort of grim irony, at the taxis lined up before the
dancehall. The two leading cars were not taxis at all, though they
bore the ear-marks, with their registers, of being public vehicles
for hire; they were large, roomy, powerful, and looked, with their
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