The Vatican Rip
“Every gateway, the enormous doors in St Peter’s, the Museum entrance, every Swiss Guard in sight and the Angelica gateway, with me grinning and clicking away among droves of tourists all doing the same thing. I went about like someone demented. There wasn’t a lot of time.
Adriana had objected when I asked to use the camera. All known antiques firms – except Lovejoy Antiques, Inc, that is – have cameras of various sorts, though most dealers are too bone idle to use them much. She had finally let... me borrow a cheap box camera that was hanging on hoping to become an antique, a century still to go.
‘Thanks, Adriana,’ I said. My last money would go on a film.
‘Signora Albanese to you.’ I grovelled. ‘Thank you, Signora Albanese.’ ‘And that’s enough for a rustica.’ That meant eating on the hoof.
I asked what about food this evening. ‘That requirement will be met, Lovejoy,’ she intoned mercilessly.
The giant purple Rolls called for her just before two. We shut shop with Piero sourly giving me the once over in case I’d nicked a valuable Isfahan carpet or two, and with Fabio taking an age doing his eyes in a French early Georgian period swivel mirror.MoreLess
Adriana had objected when I asked to use the camera. All known antiques firms – except Lovejoy Antiques, Inc, that is – have cameras of various sorts, though most dealers are too bone idle to use them much. She had finally let... me borrow a cheap box camera that was hanging on hoping to become an antique, a century still to go.
‘Thanks, Adriana,’ I said. My last money would go on a film.
‘Signora Albanese to you.’ I grovelled. ‘Thank you, Signora Albanese.’ ‘And that’s enough for a rustica.’ That meant eating on the hoof.
I asked what about food this evening. ‘That requirement will be met, Lovejoy,’ she intoned mercilessly.
The giant purple Rolls called for her just before two. We shut shop with Piero sourly giving me the once over in case I’d nicked a valuable Isfahan carpet or two, and with Fabio taking an age doing his eyes in a French early Georgian period swivel mirror.MoreLess
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