| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: received the reply that having spared my life they con-
sidered that Tu-al-sa's debt of gratitude was canceled.
They still had against me, however, the crime of which
I had been guilty--the unforgivable crime of stealing
the great secret. They, therefore, intended holding Dian
and me prisoners until the manuscript was returned to
them.
They would, they said, send an escort of Sagoths with
me to fetch the precious document from its hiding-place,
keeping Dian at Phutra as a hostage and releasing us
both the moment that the document was safely restored
Pellucidar |
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 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: word, an' please your honour, upon hands again--but it was softer than
sattin--
--Prithee, Trim, commend it as much as thou wilt, said my uncle Toby; I
shall hear thy story with the more delight--The corporal thank'd his master
most unfeignedly; but having nothing to say upon the Beguine's hand but the
same over again--he proceeded to the effects of it.
The fair Beguine, said the corporal, continued rubbing with her whole hand
under my knee--till I fear'd her zeal would weary her--'I would do a
thousand times more,' said she, 'for the love of Christ'--In saying which,
she pass'd her hand across the flannel, to the part above my knee, which I
had equally complain'd of, and rubb'd it also.
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