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He would have been known as a Frenchman if found dressed in furs at the North Pole. He explained passionately that, had he been a mere photographer, he would not have ventured to intrude upon such distinguished company; but he was unique in his profession, a Stereo-Mondaine, a traveller who knew his world and had a métier very special.
"Well, if you didn't tell me, somebody else must have, mustn't they else how could I know?" "Highnesses, Mister the Stereo-Mondaine." A frail wisp of a man was ushered by the butler on to the loggia: a man very shabby, very thin, very proud, with a camera out of proportion to his size and strength, hugged under one arm.
She smiled pleadingly, yet mischievously, and turned an explanatory glance on the curé. "I was an artist, and I should so love to know what is a Stereo-Mondaine." Vanno had never before liked her so much. Angelo's face changed and softened. "If you want him, it is different!" he returned. "But you've seemed always to have a horror of snapshotters." "He might take the garden," she suggested.
"It must be nearly time. But it wasn't he, after all. Yes, indeed, it is a charming photograph." Breaking from English into French, she complimented the Stereo-Mondaine. "Will you sell me that picture?" Vanno asked. "But, Monsieur, it is my best. I should have to demand a good price; for it could be produced in a journal, and I would be well paid.
"Let him go into the garden, and take half a dozen of the prettiest views things we should like to carry away with us," the Princess said, hastily, as if she were anxious now to be rid of her protégé. "When they are ready, he can send them to us and the bill." The Stereo-Mondaine was disposed of, while Angelo took the glass plate from Vanno, and looked at the picture.
When the plate of a coloured photograph is gone biff! all is gone. There is an end." "I will give you three louis." The Stereo-Mondaine accepted at once, lest the Monsieur should change his mind; and Vanno having taken the plate from him, he proceeded to produce others. "Nothing more, thanks unless you have any of the same lady." "No, unfortunately, Monsieur.
It is a Stereo-Mondaine and he have a strong want to prend some photographs of the garden and peoples which is done from colours already, very rippin'." Angelo frowned slightly. And when he frowned his long oval face looked cold and proud, the face of an aristocrat who believed that the world was made for him and his kind. "Tell the man that we cannot allow him to take photographs here," he said.
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