| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: and is very sustaining, and even intoxicating; so that
Nicholas and his companions could not but congratulate
themselves on the discovery.
"Save one," said Michael, "but empty the others."
"Directly, little father."
"These will help us to cross the Yenisei."
"And the raft?"
"Will be the kibitka itself, which is light enough to float.
Besides, we will sustain it, as well as the horse, with these
bottles."
"Well thought of, little father," exclaimed Nicholas,
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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 The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: went as far as a house in the neighbourhood at which she had
business: she let him know it was not where she lived. She lived,
as she said, in a mere slum, with an old aunt, a person in
connexion with whom she spoke of the engrossment of humdrum duties
and regular occupations. She wasn't, the mourning niece, in her
first youth, and her vanished freshness had left something behind
that, for Stransom, represented the proof it had been tragically
sacrificed. Whatever she gave him the assurance of she gave
without references. She might have been a divorced duchess - she
might have been an old maid who taught the harp.
CHAPTER V.
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