As regarded the laws of the land, he, as a Jew, might fix his residence anywhere in Prague or around Prague; he might have gardens, and lands, and all the results of money; he might put his wife into a carriage twice as splendid as that which constituted the great social triumph of Madame Zamenoy--but so strong against such a mode of life were the traditional prejudices of both Jews and Christians, that any such fashion of living would be absolutely impossible to him.

It would not be good for him that he should remain at Prague.

Knowing his father as he did, he could not believe that the old man would be so unjust as to let him go altogether empty-handed.

He had toiled, and had been successful; and something of the corn which he had garnered would surely be rendered to him.

With this--or, if need be, without it--he and his Christian wife would go forth and see if the world was not wide enough to find them a spot on which they might live without the contempt of those around them.
Though Nina had quenched her lamp and had gone to bed, it was not late when Trendellsohn reached his home, and he knew that he should find his father waiting for him.