| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: dear sir. We are not rich in Angoumois. When you spoke to me of your
bills, I thought that a much smaller amount was involved."
Lucien thanked the old man for his good offices. "The promise of
forgiveness which you have brought is for me a priceless gift."
Very early the next morning Lucien set out from Marsac, and reached
Angouleme towards nine o'clock. He carried nothing but his walking-
stick; the short jacket that he wore was considerably the worst for
his journey, his black trousers were whitened with dust, and a pair of
worn boots told sufficiently plainly that their owner belonged to the
hapless tribe of tramps. He knew well enough that the contrast between
his departure and return was bound to strike his fellow-townsmen; he
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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 Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: loco superiore mittere, et quaecumque pars castrorum nudata defensoribus
premi videbatur, eo occurrere et auxilium ferre, sed hoc superari quod
diuturnitate pugnae hostes defessi proelio excedebant, alii integris
viribus succedebant; quarum rerum a nostris propter paucitatem fieri nihil
poterat, ac non modo defesso ex pugna excedendi, sed ne saucio quidem eius
loci ubi constiterat relinquendi ac sui recipiendi facultas dabatur.
Cum iam amplius horis sex continenter pugnaretur, ac non solum vires
sed etiam tela nostros deficerent, atque hostes acrius instarent
languidioribusque nostris vallum scindere et fossas complere coepissent,
resque esset iam ad extremum perducta casum, P. Sextius Baculus, primi
pili centurio, quem Nervico proelio compluribus confectum vulneribus
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