| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: men enabled them to proceed--branches which, in their lifetime,
had swayed high above the bulk of the wood, and caught the latest
and earliest rays of the sun and moon while the lower part of the
forest was still in darkness.
"You seem to have a better instrument than they, Marty," said
Fitzpiers.
"No, sir," she said, holding up the tool--a horse's leg-bone
fitted into a handle and filed to an edge--"'tis only that they've
less patience with the twigs, because their time is worth more
than mine."
A little shed had been constructed on the spot, of thatched
The Woodlanders |
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 Lesson of the Master by Henry James: represented that her strength was not equal to her aspirations.
CHAPTER III
The smoking-room at Summersoft was on the scale of the rest of the
place; high light commodious and decorated with such refined old
carvings and mouldings that it seemed rather a bower for ladies who
should sit at work at fading crewels than a parliament of gentlemen
smoking strong cigars. The gentlemen mustered there in
considerable force on the Sunday evening, collecting mainly at one
end, in front of one of the cool fair fireplaces of white marble,
the entablature of which was adorned with a delicate little Italian
"subject." There was another in the wall that faced it, and,
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