Ripley Read- Update: I've read 184 out of 249 pages.
And now we have Tom turning his talents to interior decorating:
"The inside of the house was Tom's ideal of what a civilized bachelor's home should look like, in Venice, at least: a checkerboard black-and-white marble floor downstairs extending from the formal foyer into each room, pink-and-white marble floor upstairs, furniture that did not resemble furniture at all but an embodiment of cinquecento music played on hautboys, recorders, and violas da gamba."
...and of course there is more talk of drink. LoL. Who'd have guessed it?
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