| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: due north, just the very way they had planned to go. Then they
struck a coast that wasn't laid down or charted, but the cliffs
were such that no boat could land until they found a bay and struck
across under sail to the other side where the shore looked lower;
they were scant of provisions and out of water, but they got sight
of something that looked like a great town. 'For God's sake,
Gaffett!' said I, the first time he told me. 'You don't mean a
town two degrees farther north than ships had ever been?' for he'd
got their course marked on an old chart that he'd pieced out at the
top; but he insisted upon it, and told it over and over again, to
be sure I had it straight to carry to those who would be
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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 Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: so honorable, that he was not once the object of those epigrams which
the malicious journalism of the day hurled at the three hundred votes
of the centre, at the Ministers, the cooks, the Directors-General, the
princely Amphitryons, and the official supporters of the Villele
Ministry.
At the close of this campaign, during which Monsieur de Fontaine had
on several occasions brought out all his forces, he believed that this
time the procession of suitors would not be a mere dissolving view in
his daughter's eyes; that it was time she should make up her mind. He
felt a certain inward satisfaction at having well fulfilled his duty
as a father. And having left no stone unturned, he hoped that, among
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