'It is because they drink tea that they eat so much.' 'All the more,' answered Stromboli.

'Do you not see that I am fat?
Why should I eat more?
Am I to turn into a monument of Victor Emanuel ?' 'You eat too much bread,' said Schreiermeyer in a resentful tone.
'It is my vice,' said the tenor, taking up four thin slices of bread and butter together and popping them all into his mouth without the least difficulty.

'When I see bread, I eat it.

I eat all there is.' 'We see you do,' returned Schreiermeyer bitterly.
'I cannot help it.

Why do they bring bread?
They are in league to make me fat.