| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: unspeakable lying my good friend Mr. Henry Savile of this county
did most pithily and wittily reply, stripping the ass out of his
lion's skin; and Sir Thomas Baskerville, general of the fleet, by
my advice, send him a cartel of defiance, offering to meet him with
choice of weapons, in any indifferent kingdom of equal distance
from this realm; which challenge he hath prudently put in his pipe,
or rather rolled it up for one of his Spanish cigarros, and smoked
it, and I doubt not, found it foul in the mouth."
"But the next day, gentlemen, in came some five-and-twenty more,
being the wreck of the other party, and with them a few negroes;
and these last proved themselves no honester men than they were
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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 Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: which cannot fade. Are there any sorrows like these sorrows of our
youth? Can any bitterness equal the bitterness of such good-byes?
I know but one of which I was fated to taste in after years, and
that shall be told of in its place. it is a common jest to mock at
early love, but if it be real, if it be something more than the
mere arising of the passions, early love is late love also; it is
love for ever, the best and worst event which can befall a man or
woman. I say it who am old and who have done with everything, and
it is true.
One thing I have forgotten. As we kissed and clung in our despair
behind the bole of the great beech, Lily drew a ring from her
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