| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: abrupt, bitter little laugh. "We make our journey together in
singular stages. Rather than be alone, I'll come with you - but you
know that if I set foot in Sant they will kill me."
"At least set me on the way. I wish to get there before night. Is it
possible?"
"If you are willing to take risks with nature. And why should you
not take risks today? Your luck holds. But someday or other it
won't hold - your luck."
"Let us start," said Maskull. "The luck I've had so far is nothing
to brag about."
Blodsombre was over when they set off; it was early afternoon, but
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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 Purse by Honore de Balzac: "I feel infinitely better," replied the painter. "I need nothing
further but a hackney cab to take me home. The porter's wife will
go for one."
He tried to repeat his thanks to the two strangers; but at each
sentence the elder lady interrupted him, saying, "Tomorrow,
monsieur, pray be careful to put on leeches, or to be bled, and
drink a few cups of something healing. A fall may be dangerous."
The young girl stole a look at the painter and at the pictures in
the studio. Her expression and her glances revealed perfect
propriety; her curiosity seemed rather absence of mind, and her
eyes seemed to speak the interest which women feel, with the most
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