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Souls and Toes "This toe," she said, "is Beauty… this is Art… This toe is Italy, and this is Greece."… A poet, quite beside himself with inspiration, Suddenly arose and cried:
 * "This little pig went to market,
 * This little pig stayed at home—
 * This little pig was Greece,
 * This little pig was Rome!"

But they chilled him… he went Into the Silences… And Terpsichore resumed: "My ten toes are: Beauty, Art, Italy, Greece, Life, Music, Psyche, Color, Motion, Liberty! Put yourself into a receptive attitude now, and Beauty will speak to you!" And while a satellite ran rosy fingers down a lute, she moved the toe named Beauty to and fro…

A hush fell on the assembled nuts, as Beauty moved… As Beauty spoke to them… "I see," murmured Hermione to Fothergil Finch, "I see, As that toe moves… the Isles of Greece… and Aphrodite rising [125]