The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: the heyday of its lust for cruelty, though it scruples not to
hound the patriot with spies, to pack the corrupt jury, to
bribe the hangman, and to erect the infamous gallows, would
hesitate to inflict so horrible a doom: not, I am well
aware, from virtue, not from philanthropy, but with the fear
before it of the withering scorn of the good.
But I wander from M'Guire. From this dread glance into the
past and future, his thoughts returned at a bound upon the
present. How had he wandered there? and how long - oh,
heavens! how long had he been about it? He pulled out his
watch; and found that but three minutes had elapsed. It
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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 A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: SECOND ACT
SCENE
Drawing-room at Hunstanton, after dinner, lamps lit. Door L.C.
Door R.C.
[Ladies seated on sofas.]
MRS. ALLONBY. What a comfort it is to have got rid of the men for
a little!
LADY STUTFIELD. Yes; men persecute us dreadfully, don't they?
MRS. ALLONBY. Persecute us? I wish they did.
LADY HUNSTANTON. My dear!
MRS. ALLONBY. The annoying thing is that the wretches can be
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