Miss Ebert kept the little bakery on the corner. Two or three times a week, she had a customer in(1)she began to take an interest. He was a middle-aged man (2)spectacles and a brown beard. He spoke English with a strong German accent. His clothes were worn and wrinkled, but he looked neat and(3)very good manners. He always bought two loaves of stale bread. He never asked for anything(4)stale bread; it cost a lot less than fresh bread.Once Miss Ebert(5)a red and brown stain on his finger. She was sure that he was an artist and very poor. No doubt he lived in an attic, where he painted pictures and ate stale bread and thought of the good things(6)eat in the bakery.Often when Miss Ebert sat down to her evening meal, she would sigh and wish the artist might share her food(7) of eating his dry bread. One day the customer came in(8)usual and asked for his stale bread. As the sudden noise of the fire engine made him hurry to the door, Miss Ebert(9)the opportunity. She cut each of the loaves with a knife,inserted some butter and, when the customer(10),she was putting them into a paper bag.
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