| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: What danger or what sorrow can befall thee
So long as Edward is thy constant friend
And their true sovereign, whom they must obey?
Nay, whom they shall obey, and love thee too,
Unless they seek for hatred at my hands;
Which if they do, yet will I keep thee safe,
And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath.
GLOSTER.
[Aside.] I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.
[Enter a Messenger.]
KING EDWARD.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: about Monsieur Peringuey, and the emigre party was the very
place to find out. It's neither here nor there, of course, but those
French emigre parties they almost make you cry. The men that
you bought fruit of in Market Street, the hairdressers and fencing-
masters and French teachers, they turn back again by candlelight
to what they used to be at home, and you catch their real names.
There wasn't much room in the washhouse, so I sat on top of the
copper and played 'em the tunes they called for - "Si le Roi m'avait
donne," and such nursery stuff. They cried sometimes. It hurt me
to take their money afterwards, indeed it did. And there I found
out about Monsieur Peringuey. He was a proper rogue too! None
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: permit me to take breath ere I communicate my tidings."
"No breath, sir," replied the lady impatiently; "I know your
theatrical arts. Since your breath hath sufficed to bring you
hither, it may suffice to tell your tale--at least briefly, and
in the gross."
"Madam," answered Varney, "we are not alone, and my lord's
message was for your ear only."
"Leave us, Janet, and Master Foster," said the lady; "but remain
in the next apartment, and within call."
Foster and his daughter retired, agreeably to the Lady
Leicester's commands, into the next apartment, which was the
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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 Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: with old women - I laid a task on her which I thought 'ud silence
her. I never reckoned the old scrattle 'ud risk her neckbone at
Lewes Assizes for your sake, Miss Phil. But she did. She up an'
stole, I tell ye, as cheerful as a tinker. You might ha' knocked me
down with any one of them liddle spoons when she brung 'em in
her apron."
'"Do you mean to say, then, that you did it to try my poor
Cissie?" I screamed at him.
'"What else for, dearie?" he said. "I don't stand in need of
hedge-stealings. I'm a freeholder, with money in the bank; and
now I won't trust women no more! Silly old besom! I do beleft
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