| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: outbreak of civil warfare in his native country, joined
Cromwell's army; and for the bravery he evinced was raised to the
rank of lieutenant, rewarded by a substantial grant of land, and
finally made a justice of the peace. At the restoration he was
deprived of this honour, as he was likewise of the property he
called his, which was returned to its rightful owner, an honest
royalist. Wholly dissatisfied with a government which dealt him
such hardships, he organised a plot to raise an insurrection in
Ireland, storm Dublin Castle, and seize the Duke of Ormond, then
lord lieutenant. This dark scheme was discovered by his grace;
the chief conspirators were accordingly seized, with 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 Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: failed--which he knew well enough without her. "Before--?" he
blankly echoed.
"Before you see, it was always to COME. That kept it present."
"Oh I don't care what comes now! Besides," Marcher added, "it
seems to me I liked it better present, as you say, than I can like
it absent with YOUR absence."
"Oh mine!"--and her pale hands made light of it.
"With the absence of everything." He had a dreadful sense of
standing there before her for--so far as anything but this proved,
this bottomless drop was concerned--the last time of their life.
It rested on him with a weight he felt he could scarce bear, and
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