| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: lives, when
"The bosom's lord sits lightly on its throne,"
when the peace of the heart is assured, and the future is radiantly
beckoning to them,--that any man should choose such victims for
such crimes was too preposterous an idea long to be entertained.
Unless the man were mad, the idea was inconceivable; and even a
monomaniac must betray himself in such a course, because he would
necessarily conceive himself to be accomplishing some supreme act
of justice.
It was thus I argued; and indeed I should much have preferred to
believe that one maniac were involved, rather than the contagion of
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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 Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: under her influence, she conceived a scheme which would of
necessity bring her into constant intercourse with him and the
young queen. She therefore demanded he would appoint her one of
the ladies of the bedchamber to her majesty, to which he,
heedless of the insult this would fix upon his wife, readily
consented.
In order to qualify Barbara Palmer for such a position, it was
necessary she should be raised to the peerage. This could only
be accomplished by ennobling her husband, unless public decency
were wholly ignored, and she was created a peeress in her own
right, whilst he remained a commoner. After some faint show of
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