The city treasury could use the rent and tax exacted from Jews and demanded of the stranger.

The Jew consented to the magistrate's requirement, but as it soon became known that he pored over huge volumes all day long and pursued no business, yet paid for everything in good money, he was believed to be an alchemist and sorcerer.
All who lived here were miserable or despised, and when Adam had left the Richtberg he told himself that he no longer belonged among the proud and unblemished and since he felt dishonored and took disgrace in the same dogged earnest, that he did everything else, he believed the people in the Richtberg were just the right neighbors for him.

All knew what it is to be wretched, and many had still heavier disgrace to bear.

And then! If want drove his miserable wife back to him, this was the right place for her and those of her stamp.
So he bought the jockey's house and well-supplied forge.

There would be customers enough for all he could do there in obscurity.
He had no cause to repent his bargain.
The old nurse remained with him and took care of Ulrich, who throve admirably.