The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: which one can never have enough.
She was always dressed in time to hear their lessons, which lasted
from ten till three, with an interval at noon for lunch, the three
taking the meal together in the summer-house. After lunch the children
played for an hour, while she--poor woman and happy mother--lay on a
long sofa in the summer-house, so placed that she could look out over
the soft, ever-changing country of Touraine, a land that you learn to
see afresh in all the thousand chance effects produced by daylight and
sky and the time of year.
The children scampered through the orchard, scrambled about the
terraces, chased the lizards, scarcely less nimble than they;
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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 Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: parents, and England in time became subject to a catholic king.
The possibility of such a fate was to the public mind fraught
with horror; and the House of Commons, after some angry debates
on the subject, presented an address to the king, requesting he
would abandon this proposed marriage. To this he was not
inclined to listen, his honour being so far involved in the
business; but notwithstanding his unwillingness, his councillors
urged him to this step, and prayed he would stop the princess,
then journeying through France on her way to England. This so
incensed him that he immediately prorogued parliament, and freed
himself from further interference on the subject.
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