| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: hands together, he spoke in Spanish:
"Alas! miserable me! Alas! unhappy senors! Do my old eyes deceive
me, and is it one of those evil visions of the past which haunt my
dreams by night; or has the accursed thirst of gold, the ruin of my
race, penetrated even into this my solitude? Oh, senors, senors,
know you not that you bear with you your own poison, your own
familiar fiend, the root of every evil? And is it not enough for
you, senors, to load yourselves with the wedge of Achan, and
partake his doom, but you must make these hapless heathens the
victims of your greed and cruelty, and forestall for them on earth
those torments which may await their unbaptized souls hereafter?"
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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 Confidence by Henry James: I suppose you are come to luncheon--I have come to luncheon.
It ought to be on table, you know--it 's nearly two o'clock.
But I dare say you have noticed foreigners are never punctual--
it 's only English servants that are punctual. And they don't
understand luncheon, you know--they can't make out our eating at
this sort of hour. You know they always dine so beastly early.
Do you remember the sort of time they used to dine at Baden?--
half-past five, half-past six; some unearthly hour of
that kind. That 's the sort of time you dine in America.
I found they 'd invite a man at half-past six. That 's what I
call being in a hurry for your food. You know they always
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