| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: in peril."
She pressed.against him, her face so close to his that her breath
fanned his cheek, whither a faint colour crept in quick response.
Despite herself almost, instinctively, unconsciously, she exerted
the weapons of her sex to bend him to her will.
"You say you love me," she whispered. "Prove it me now, and I will
believe you.
"Ah !" he sighed. "And believing me? Whatthen?"
He had himself grimly in hand, yet feared he should not prove strong
enough to hold himself for long.
"You.., you shall find me your... dutiful wife," she faltered,
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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 Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: I would devise pretexts to lightly touch her dress or her hair, to
take her hand in mine, to compel her to speak more than she wished;
all these nothings were great events for me. Eyes and voice and
gestures were freighted with mysterious messages of love in hours of
ecstasy like these, and this was the only language permitted me by the
quiet maidenly reserve of the young girl before me. Her manner towards
me underwent no change; with me she was always as a sister with a
brother; yet, as my passion grew, and the contrast between her glances
and mine, her words and my utterance, became more striking, I felt at
last that this timid silence was the only means by which she could
express her feelings. Was she not always in the salon whenever I came?
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