| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: clarionet?"
"From Venice," he said, with a trace of Italian accent.
"Have you always been blind, or did it come on afterwards--"
"Afterwards," he answered quickly. "A cursed gutta serena."
"Venice is a fine city; I have always had a fancy to go there."
The old man's face lighted up, the wrinkles began to work, he was
violently excited.
"If I went with you, you would not lose your time," he said.
"Don't talk about Venice to our Doge," put in the fiddle, "or you will
start him off, and he has stowed away a couple of bottles as it is--
has the prince!"
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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 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Scarlett looked about her with gladness. It was so exciting to be
actually at a party again. She was pleased also with the warm
reception she had received. When she entered the house on Frank's
arm, everyone had rushed to her with cries of pleasure and welcome,
kissed her, shaken her hand, told her they had missed her
dreadfully and that she must never go back to Tara. The men seemed
gallantly to have forgotten she had tried her best to break their
hearts in other days and the girls that she had done everything in
her power to entice their beaux away from them. Even Mrs.
Merriwether, Mrs. Whiting, Mrs. Meade and the other dowagers who
had been so cool to her during the last days of the war, forgot her
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