He would go away from Prague.
What did it matter?
Prague was not all the world.

There were cities better, nobler, richer than Prague, in which his brethren, the Jews, would not turn their backs upon him because he had married a Christian.
It might be that he would have to begin the world again; but for that, too, he would be prepared.

Nina had shown that she could bear poverty.
Nina's torn boots and threadbare dress, and the utter absence of any request ever made with regard to her own comfort, had not been lost upon him.

He knew how noble she was in bearing--how doubly noble she was in never asking.

If only there was nothing of deceit at the back to mar it all! He passed over the bridge, hardly knowing whither he was going, and turned directly down towards Balatka's house.