| 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: who retook in succession all the conquered towns. Besides
this, the winter was terrible, and, decimated by the cold,
only a small part of these hordes returned to the steppes
of Tartary.
The Irkutsk road, by way of the Ural Mountains, was
now open. The Grand Duke was anxious to return to
Moscow, but he delayed his journey to be present at a
touching ceremony, which took place a few days after the
entry of the Russian troops.
Michael Strogoff sought Nadia, and in her father's pres-
ence said to her, "Nadia, my sister still, when you left Riga
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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 Aspern Papers by Henry James: only to a completely innocent woman.
"I shall like the flowers better now that I know they are also meant for me."
"How could you have doubted it? If you will tell me the kind you
like best I will send a double lot of them."
"Oh, I like them all best!" Then she went on, familiarly: "Shall you study--
shall you read and write--when you go up to your rooms?"
"I don't do that at night, at this season. The lamplight brings
in the animals."
"You might have known that when you came."
"I did know it!"
"And in winter do you work at night?"
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