Das war die Zigeunerin, welche er in der vergangenen Nacht zu entführen versucht hatte: eine Beschimpfung, das fühlte er dunkel, für die man ihn jetzt in diesem Augenblicke züchtigte; was übrigens am allerwenigsten der Fall war, da er ja nur infolge des Unglücks, taub zu sein, und von einem Tauben verurtheilt worden zu sein, Strafe erlitten hatte.
It was the gypsy whom he had attempted to carry off on the preceding night, a misdeed for which he was dimly conscious that he was being punished at that very moment; which was not in the least the case, since he was being chastised only for the misfortune of being deaf, and of having been judged by a deaf man.