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Updated: June 28, 2025
We three walked home together in the afternoon sunshine the man who, through all this time in Friendship, had been dear, and Calliope and I. I thought that Daphne Street had never looked so beautiful.
Afterward, when I wondered, Calliope explained simply that it was not usual for a hostess to meet her guests at the door. "Of course, they're usually right in the midst o' gettin' the supper when the company comes," she said.
They went down the path between blossoming bushes, in the late afternoon sun. And as Calliope followed, "That's so about the heart, ain't it?" she said brightly. "Busy, busy, busy, busy all the day. Busy, busy, busy. And busy ..." "There goes Ellen Ember, crazy again," we said, when we heard that cry of hers, not unmelodious nor loud, echoing along Friendship streets.
On the mountaine sat Apollo, and at his feet sat Calliope; and on every side of the mountaine sate four Muses, playing on severell sweet instruments." But of more importance to his living fame were the two large oil paintings the Triumph of Riches and the Triumph of Poverty which he executed for the Hall of the Steelyard.
And we all talked at once, exclaiming and questioning, with sudden thanksgiving in our hearts that in the world such things may be. "I was hungry an' sick," Calliope was telling, "for an old-fashion' Thanksgivin' or anything that'd smooth life out some.
And Sir Lionel, therefore, and Miss Todd had nearly rushed into each other's arms; and they both, without any intentional falsehood, were talking of each other all over Littlebath as old and confidential friends. And now for Miss Todd's party. Assist me, my muse. Come down from heaven, O, Calliope my queen! and aid me to spin with my pen a long discourse.
"How d'ye do, Mr Dott?" said Bob Cross, while I turned away. "What Cross, is that you? Are you dressed?" "Yes, sir, can't be helped. I'm glad I'm to sail with you, sir. What's become of Mr Keene?" "Oh, I don't know; but if he's not hanged by this time, I believe that he's to join the ship." "Won't I pull your ears for that?" thought I. "What other officers have we of the Calliope, sir?"
At this stage Calliope generally began to drink. Finally, about midnight, he was seen going homeward, saluting those whom he met with exaggerated but inoffensive courtesy. Not yet was Calliope's melancholy at the danger point.
When the library door opened and Madame Proudfit and Calliope came out, a little hush fell upon us, even though none but I knew what that interval held for Linda's mother. Her face was tranquil indeed, I think it was almost as if its ancient fear had forever left it and had given place to the blessed relief of mere sorrow.
But I want it should be put in the Old kind o' gentle, like an i-dee in your mind, an' not sudden, like a bullet in your brain." In her acceptance of innovations Calliope symbolizes the fine Friendship tendency to scientific procedure, to the penetration of the unknown through the known, the explication of mystery by natural law.
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