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"It's a small point," interrupted Gessler, "but I'm generally called 'your Excellency. Yes?" "The fact is, your Excellency, it seems to the people of Switzerland " " Whom I represent," whispered Arnold of Melchthal. " Whom I represent, that things want changing." "What things?" inquired Gessler. "The taxes, your excellent Governorship." "Change the taxes?
Then heard I one of the attendant train, Turning to Gessler, in this strain accost him: "You see our danger, and your own, my lord And that we hover on the verge of death. The boatmen there are powerless from fear, Nor are they confident what course to take; Now, here is Tell, a stout and fearless man, And knows to steer with more than common skill.
Having thus escaped the clutches of the governor, he made for the main road between Art and Kuessnacht, and there hid himself until such a time as the bailiff should pass that way. Gessler and his attendants having, with great difficulty, effected a landing at Brunnen, proceeded toward Kuessnacht.
STAUFFACHER. 'Tis even so. For this doth Gessler hate me. GERTRUDE. He burns with envy, too, to see thee living Happy and free on thy inheritance, For he has none. From the emperor himself Thou holdest in fief the lands thy fathers left thee.
To understand him in this instance one has but to remember that his hero is always the Swiss people. The Stauffachers, as a shining example of thrift and virtue; their dignified and influential position in the community; their fine new house that has roused the venomous jealousy of Gessler, all this is part of the situation, and it is the situation that counts.
In her chosen profession Marie Gessler found nothing discreditable. Of herself her opinion was not high, and her opinion of men was lower. For her smiles she had watched several sacrifice honor, duty, loyalty; and she held them and their kind in contempt.
Inside, the now contracted well of the one little shop was more scented and darker than ever. And it was longer than usual, too, before a face peered down, and the tip-tap of the bast slippers began. At last he stood before me, and, gazing through those rusty iron spectacles, said: "Mr. , isn'd it?" "Ah! Mr. Gessler," I stammered, "but your boots are really too good, you know!
Then I knew that it was he, if the words, "I will ask my brudder," had not been spoken; and that, if they had, it was his elder brother. When one grew old and wild and ran up bills, one somehow never ran them up with Gessler Brothers.
The rowers cried aloud in their terror that he was the only man in Switzerland that could save them from death. Gessler immediately commanded him to be released from his bonds and given the helm. Tell succeeded in guiding the vessel to the shore. Then seizing his bow and arrows, which his captors had thrown beside him, he sprang ashore at a point known as "Tell's Leap."
"Tell!" he muttered. "Tell!" The ship drew nearer to the rocks. "Bring him here," said Gessler. Two soldiers went down to the hold and released Tell. They bade him get up and come with them. Tell followed them on deck, and stood before the Governor. "Tell," said Gessler. Tell looked at him without speaking.
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