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The names filled her ears with a mighty din, Calliope, Venus, Uranus, Mercury, Mars and the shining hosts of heaven passed by. Far beyond them, mysterious other worlds gleamed and glimmered without name.
Then Calliope and Mis' Toplady and Mis' Holcomb and the three newcomers hurried all but abreast to the kitchen to "see what they could find"; and when Mis' Proudfit and Miss Clementina and Delia More had taken their places at the burdened table, we all sat about the edge of the room no one would share in the feast, every one having to "get right back" and asked of the journey, and gave news of Friendship Village in the long absence.
An' the girl that was me understood what I meant. An' we laughed a good deal oh, how we laughed together. That was 'most the best of all. "Well, the dream dwindled off, like they will. An' when I woke up, I was nothin' but Calliope Marsh, livin' in Friendship where folks cut a loaf o' bread on a baker's headstone just because he was a baker.
This is the famous Penelope's web, which is used as a proverbial expression for anything which is perpetually doing but never done. The rest of Penelope's history will be told when we give an account of her husband's adventures. Artistaeus. Amphion. Linus. Thamyris. Marsyas. Melampus. Musaeus Orpheus was the son of Apollo and the muse Calliope.
I think that we all dream our real, true, regular selves, only we do not dream us until we come true. I said something of this to Calliope; and then she told me. "It was when I was twenty," she said, "an' it was a little while after well, things wasn't so very happy for me. But first thing I must tell you about the picture. We didn't have so very many pictures.
The villages of the Middle West, it asseverates, have been conquered and converted by the legions of mediocrity, and now, grown rich and vain, are setting out to carry the dingy banner, led by the booster's calliope and the evangelist's bass drum, farther than it has ever gone before to make provincialism imperialistic; so that all the native and instinctive virtues, freedoms, powers must rally in their own defense.
This was finally agreed to, and it was Duncan's car that they turned into the calliope, actually going so far as to hire the local hurdy-gurdy man to ride in it and do the "callioping." "It looks as if our run home would be more auspicious than the trip we made in," said Cora to one of the very nice young students, who had offered to look over her car and see that it was in good working order.
Take a gentleman's advice and apply the soft pedal to your wheezy calliope get off the political stage in time to avoid the coming cataclysm of sphacelated cabbage and has-been cats. The day of your destiny's over and the star of your fate is in the mullagatawny.
And down on the gravel of the drive Calliope demanded passionately of Abel and me: "Oh, don't some things make you want to pull the sky down an' wrap up in it!" But at this Abel laughed a little. "It's easier to pull down just the dreams," he said.
I told her I was the marshal and you was a holy terror. You can take your badge back now, Buck." With shaking fingers Calliope began to unfasten the disc of metal from his shirt. "Easy there!" said Buck Patterson. "You keep that badge right where it is, Calliope Catesby. Don't you dare to take it off till the day your mother leaves this town.
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