| 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: me? Have you not repaid a hundred-fold the help which
I was able to give you at first? I do not know if fate will
cease to go against us; but the day on which you thank me
for having placed you in your father's hands, I in my turn
will thank you for having led me to Irkutsk."
"Poor Michael!" answered Nadia, with emotion. "Do
not speak so. That does not answer me. Michael, why,
now, are you in such haste to reach Irkutsk?"
"Because I must be there before Ivan Ogareff," ex-
claimed Michael.
"Even now?"
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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 Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: that he entered the room. In that envelope was a note, written in
pencil, containing these words:--
The day after your arrival in Paris go at eight in the morning
punctually to the garden of the Luxembourg, Allee de
l'Observatoire, fourth bench to the right, starting from the gate.
This order is strict. Do not fail to obey it.
Punctual to the minute, Dorlange was not long at the place of
rendezvous before he was met by a very small man, whose enormous head,
bearing an immense shock of hair, together with a pointed nose, chin,
and crooked legs made him seem like a being escaped from one of
Hoffman's tales. Without saying a word, for to his other physical
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