| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: diplomacy; and Lucien was not a little astonished when he heard the
controller of excise pluming himself on having effected the
introduction, and proceeding in this character to give him (Lucien)
the benefit of his advice.
"Heaven send that Lucien might meet with better treatment than he had
done," such was the matter of M. du Chatelet's discourse. "The Court
was less insolent that this pack of dolts in Angouleme. You were
expected to endure deadly insults; the superciliousness you had to put
up with was something abominable. If this kind of folk did not alter
their behavior, there would be another Revolution of '89. As for
himself, if he continued to go to the house, it was because he had
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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 Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: of the thing that was running round the edge of the envelope.
It was an insect, full six inches long, and of a vivid, venomous, red color!
It had something of the appearance of a great ant, with its long, quivering
antennae and its febrile, horrible vitality; but it was proportionately
longer of body and smaller of head, and had numberless rapidly moving legs.
In short, it was a giant centipede, apparently of the scolopendra group,
but of a form quite new to me.
These things I realized in one breathless instant; in the next--
Smith had dashed the thing's poisonous life out with one straight,
true blow of the golf club!
I leaped to the window and threw it widely open, feeling a silk
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