As Talked in the Sanctum, Part VI [pp. 561-564]

Overland Monthly
VOL. XXV. (Second Series.)-June, I895.-No. I50.
AS TALKED IN THE
/~~~~~
SANCTUM.
',b\ 1 LAST week the Sanctum
~<\ ~,/, ~ was turned upside down.
For the better part of six days
~'~ ~~ the circle was disconsolate and the great wheels of
the magazine were smothered under the calciminers'
tarpaulins. Certain wide ugly cracks had spread along
the walls behind the framed pen drawings and washes that
had taken prizes at Chicago and at the Midwinter Fair,
and the Proprietor invaded the Sanctum and the Sanctum lost its sanctity. The walls were painted red, in spite of the Artist's cry for
blue and the Poet's plea for white, and now we are gradually becoming acquainted
with the unfamiliar surroundings. We have lost something by the change. Our
ideas have become more prim, in keeping with the new order not to drive tacks in
the wall or throw paper on the newly cleaned rug. It will take another week at
least before we can get down sufficiently from our highly orderly plane to talk freely
on the things that come most naturally to mind. If the Sanctum had a calcimining
once a month and a thorough cleaning once a week, we should soon learn to be cheerful under it. Cleanliness being next to godliness, there is no reason why any one
should find fault with the Proprietor's kindly deed. Yet even the Parson lost his
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