The General chattered and shouted of the desperate lawlessness and larcenies of that Jew--the things that Jew would attempt.

He dragged her indoors, muttering of his policy in treating her at last to a wholesome despotism.
This was the medicine for her--he knew her! Whether he did or not, he knew the potency of his physic.

He knew that osiers can be made to bend.

With a frightful noise of hammering, he himself nailed up the window-shutters of the room she was locked in hard and fast, and he left her there and roared across the household that any one holding communication with the prisoner should be shot like a dog.

This was a manifestation of power in a form more convincing than the orator's.
She was friendless, abused, degraded, benighted in broad daylight; abandoned by her lover.