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Still more closely to the point, Madame Jolicoeur incident to finding entomologic specimens misplaced in her breakfast-rolls had taken the leading part in an interchange of incivilities with the bakery's proprietor, and had withdrawn from it her custom.
"More bread!" the Warden repeated in astonishment. "Why, the new Government Bakery was opened only last week, and I gave orders to sell the bread at cost-price during the present scarcity! What can they expect more?" "The Bakery's closed, y'reince!" the Chancellor said, more loudly and clearly than he had spoken yet.
All of which, of course, served but as provocation to further flippancy, and, for days later, the lady was referred to as his own sweetest soda biscuit, his bun, his precious fruit-cake, and so on, until a bakery's terms were so exhausted. All this was, no doubt, silliness. The woman, in her way, was not less inexcusable than the man.
He looked from Garibaldi to Walker and back again, and could not see any enormous difference between them. He said as much to one of the bakery's customers, a restaurateur with a well-oiled tongue, who had praised him for his intrepidity in the rescue of the medal-peddler, which, it seems, he had witnessed.
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