| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: me?" and that was--to borrow a phrase from my schoolboy language
"Is it keeps?" She looked at my mother and me, and back to her
husband again.
"You know," he said. "George."
"Well," she said to my mother, descending the last three steps of
the staircase and holding out her hand! "you're welcome. Though
it's a surprise.... I can't ask you to HAVE anything, I'm
afraid, for there isn't anything in the house." She smiled, and
looked at her husband banteringly. "Unless he makes up something
with his old chemicals, which he's quite equal to doing."
My mother shook hands stiffly, and told me to kiss my aunt....
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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 Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: after stammering a few juvenile phrases he left the room.
A few days later the marquise acquired undeniable proofs that Eugene
had told the truth. For the last fortnight she has not been seen in
society.
The marquis tells all those who ask him the reason of this
seclusion:--
"My wife has an inflammation of the stomach."
But I, her physician, who am now attending her, know it is really
nothing more than a slight nervous attack, which she is making the
most of in order to stay quietly at home.
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