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The boat, rebounding, after he leaped from it was again driven out on the lake before any of the remainder of its occupants could effect a landing. After a time, however, the fury of the storm abated, and they reached the shore in safety. In the meantime Tell had concealed himself in a defile in the mountain through which Gessler would have to pass on his way to Kussnacht.
"The second arrow was for you in case I had struck my son!" said Tell fiercely. "If so much as a drop of his blood had been drawn, my second bolt would have been lodged in your false heart." "Bind him!" shouted Gessler, overjoyed that Tell had delivered himself into his hands. "In my own castle it shall be decided what sort of death and torture he shall suffer."
I set it up That they might learn to bend those stubborn necks They carry far too proudly and I placed What well I knew their eyes could never brook Full in the road, which they perforce must pass, That, when their eyes fell on it, they might call That lord to mind whom they too much forget. HARRAS. But surely, sir, the people have some rights GESSLER. This is no time to settle what they are.
But Walter Tell broke in impatiently, and bade his grandfather rise, and not kneel to the tyrant. "Where must I stand?" asked he. "I'm not afraid. Father can hit a bird upon the wing." "You see that lime-tree yonder," said Gessler to his soldiers; "take the boy and bind him to it." "I will not be bound!" cried Walter. "I am not afraid. I'll stand still. I won't breathe. If you bind me I'll kick!"
The general turned and embraced the spy. "My children," he said, "welcome your brother. He has come home." Before the car had reached the fortifications, Marie Gessler had arranged her plan of escape. She had departed from the chateau without even a hand-bag, and she would say that before the shops closed she must make purchases.
I madly thought That I should best advance the general weal, By adding sinews to the emperor's power. The scales have fallen from mine eyes I see The fearful precipice on which I stand. You've led my youthful judgment far astray, Deceived my honest heart. With best intent, I had well nigh achieved my country's ruin. GESSLER. Audacious boy, this language to thy lord?
All this time the people crowded round silent and wondering, and Tell stood among them as if in a dream, watching everything with a look of horror in his eyes. "Clear a path there," shouted Gessler, and the soldiers charged among the people, scattering them right and left.
There's not a prince in the empire that can show A better title to his heritage; For thou hast over thee no lord but one, And he the mightiest of all Christian kings. Gessler, we know, is but a younger son, His only wealth the knightly cloak he wears; He therefore views an honest man's good fortune With a malignant and a jealous eye.
The deed was accomplished surely and with skill, and the Swiss would suffer no more from the heavy hand of the tyrant Gessler. This act rang through Switzerland, and everywhere people were soon in revolt against the power of Austria. And the ultimate result of the action of William Tell was in the end the freedom of the Swiss people from the oppression of Austria.
"Have done with this delay," said Gessler, growing yet more angry. "You break the laws, and when, instead of punishing you as you deserve, I give you a chance of escape, you grumble and think yourself hardly used. Were peasants ever more unruly and discontented? Have done, I say. Heinz, bring me an apple." The soldier hurried away.
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