| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: college were married."
"Did he ever receive letters from ladies?" continued Muller.
Johann thought the matter over, then confessed that he knew very
little about writing and couldn't read handwriting very well anyway.
But he remembered to have seen a letter now and then, a little
letter with a fine and delicate handwriting.
"Have you any of these envelopes?" asked Muller. But Johann told
him that in spite of his usual carelessness in such matters,
Professor Fellner never allowed these letters to lie about his room.
Finally the detective came out with the question to which he had
been leading up. "Did your master ever receive visits from ladies?
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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 Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Denote its objects, as each divers sense
Might prompt?- since even the speechless herds, aye, since
The very generations of wild beasts
Are wont dissimilar and divers sounds
To rouse from in them, when there's fear or pain,
And when they burst with joys. And this, forsooth,
'Tis thine to know from plainest facts: when first
Huge flabby jowls of mad Molossian hounds,
Baring their hard white teeth, begin to snarl,
They threaten, with infuriate lips peeled back,
In sounds far other than with which they bark
Of The Nature of Things |
