| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: by the desire to show that he, too, had lived and felt many things,
and the fever was upon him.
He was certainly confoundedly allusive at first, and my eagerness
to clear him up with a few precise questions was only equalled
and controlled by my anxiety not to get to this sort of thing too soon.
But in another meeting or so the basis of confidence was complete;
and from first to last I think I got most of the items and aspects--
indeed, I got quite a number of times over almost everything that
Mr. Skelmersdale, with his very limited powers of narration, will
ever be able to tell. And so I come to the story of his adventure,
and I piece it all together again. Whether it really happened,
|
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 A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: the Menteith's, or down wi' the honest gentlemen at the foot of
the table?"
Lord Menteith himself answered the enquiry, by pointing to a seat
beside his own.
"And here she comes," said Donald, as Captain Dalgetty entered
the hall; "and I hope gentlemens will all take bread and cheese,
as we say in the glens, until better meat be ready, until the
Tiernach comes back frae the hill wi' the southern gentlefolk,
and then Dugald Cook will show himself wi' his kid and hill
venison.''
In the meantime, Captain Dalgetty had entered the apartment, and
|
