| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: doubtless in time I should have wearied of a useless search and
sailed for home and happiness. But having heard them it seemed to
me, to my undoing, that this would be to play the part of a sorry
coward. Moreover, strange as it may look, now I felt as though I
had two wrongs to avenge, that of my mother and that of Isabella de
Siguenza. Indeed none could have seen that young and lovely lady
die thus terribly and not desire to wreak her death on him who had
betrayed and deserted her.
So the end of it was that being of a stubborn temper, I determined
to do violence to my own desires and the dying counsels of my
benefactor, and to follow de Garcia to the ends of the earth and
Montezuma's Daughter |
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 Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: rather than linger on in uncertainty; she also remembered having
heard the Ascots' youngest daughter, Lady Joan Senechal, spoken
of as one of the prettiest girls of the season; and she recalled
the almost exaggerated warmth of the Ambassador's greeting at
the private view.
"Of course I'll come, Streff dear!" she cried, with an effort at
gaiety that sounded successful to her own strained ears, and
reflected itself in the sudden lighting up of his face.
She waved a good-bye from the step, saying to herself, as she
looked after him: "He'll drive me home to-night, and I shall
say 'yes'; and then he'll kiss me again. But the next time it
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