If it would serve him, I think that I could do so." "What! in the dark, when it is so cold?
The people would see you in the daytime." "But I would live, that I might hear of his doings, and see his success." "Ah! I could not live without feeling that he loved me." "But what will you think of his love when it has ruined him?
Will it be pleasant then?
Were I to do that, then--then I should bethink myself of the cold river and the dark night, and the eyes of the passers-by whom I should be afraid to meet in the daytime.

I ask you to be as I am.

Who is there that pities me?
Think again, Nina.

I know you would wish that he should be prosperous." Nina did think again, and thought long.

And she wept, and the Jewess comforted her, and many words were said between them beyond those which have been here set down; but, in the end, Nina could not bring herself to say that she would give him up.