'It is deaf.

Give me to eat and drink, lest I do that it cannot help my doing, and will not do for you.' 'Will you leave me, if I do thus much?
Will you leave me and return no more ?' 'I will promise nothing,' he rejoined, seating himself at the table, 'nothing but this--I will execute my threat if you betray me.' She rose at length, and going to a closet or pantry in the room, brought out some fragments of cold meat and bread and put them on the table.

He asked for brandy, and for water.

These she produced likewise; and he ate and drank with the voracity of a famished hound.

All the time he was so engaged she kept at the uttermost distance of the chamber, and sat there shuddering, but with her face towards him.