"You would like to eat now?"

"If I might have a little water I would be glad; my throat is fairlydry."

The king had water and wine brought for him, and cake also; butAugust, though he drank eagerly, could not swallow anything. Hismind was in too great a tumult.

"May I stay with Hirschvogel?--may I stay?" he said, with feverishagitation.