| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: perplexed. Why should this pretty creature mother her
with such tenderness?
Oh! It was the girl that George should have married!
She glanced at the white room with its dainty bibelots,
the Bible, the Madonnas, watching, benign. Poor little
nun, waiting for the love that never could come to her!
"I am glad you are here, my child. You can tell me what
I want to know. I have not an hour to spare. I am going
to my son--to George. Do you know where he is?"
"At Vannes, in Brittany."
"Brittany--that is a long way." Frances rose
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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 Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: witnessing this'spectacle. That the Dwarf would open his
dwelling to a mortal guest, was as improbable as that any one
would choose voluntarily to be his nocturnal visitor; and, under
full conviction that he beheld a wizard holding intercourse with
his familiar spirit, Hobbie pulled in at once his breath and his
bridle, resolved not to incur the indignation of either by a
hasty intrusion on their conference. They were probably aware of
his approach, for he had not halted for a moment before the Dwarf
returned to his cottage; and the taller figure who had
accompanied him, glided round the enclosure of the garden, and
seemed to disappear from the eyes of the admiring Hobbie.
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