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Updated: May 14, 2025
Tell can no longer restrain his indignation, and, fixing his eyes steadily on Gessler, he answers "Well then, my lord, since you assure my life, I will speak the truth without reserve. If I had struck my beloved child, with the second arrow I would have transpierced thy heart. Assuredly that time I should not have missed my mark."
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!
Nobly is fulfilled the oath we swore to drive the tyrants from our land. Let the pole mark the spot where the revolution finished." "But is it finished?" said Arnold of Melchthal. "It is a nice point. When the Emperor of Austria hears that we have killed his friend Gessler, and burnt down all his fine new fortresses, will he not come here to seek revenge?" "He will," said Tell. "And let him come.
More to the left!" shouted the people in a panic, while Gessler roared with laughter, and bade Tell shoot and chance it. "If you can't hit the apple or your son," he chuckled, "you can bring down one of your dear fellow-countrymen." Tell lowered his bow, and a sigh of relief went through the crowd. "My eyes are swimming," he said; "I cannot see." Then he turned to the Governor.
Tell implored Gessler to spare him so cruel an experiment, but, finding the governor inexorable, the hero submitted to the trial. He was conducted into the public place, where the required distance was measured by Berenger a double row of soldiers shutting up three sides of the square. The people, awe-stricken and trembling, pressed behind.
Of the other bailies, Gessler and Wolfenschiess are believed to have excited even more hatred than their colleague Landenburg, and to have exceeded him in acts of savage cruelty and vicious living. One example out of many similar ones will show the spirit in which the Swiss traditions have treated the memory of Wolfenschiess.
The answer pleased Gessler, who replied, "Thou art right," and, planning future vengeance, he passed on with his escort. The wife of Stauffacher, who had been standing near the new building, but concealed from Gessler and his men, heard the conversation, and reported it to her husband.
The father of Arnold Melchthal, one of the 'Brothers of Rutli, as our band is called, was recently put to a cruel death by the unjust sentence of Gessler, the governor of our own canton of Uri; and who knoweth, gentle wife, whether his jealous caprice may not induce him to single me out for his next victim?" "Single thee out, my husband!" exclaimed Annette turning pale.
But the cases are not exactly parallel. There the alternative was a scene of unmitigated and revolting horror, which would have destroyed the effect of the tragedy; here it was simply a question of when Gessler should be killed with an arrow.
With the army came Landenberg, the oppressive governor who had been set free on his oath never to return to Switzerland. He was returning in defiance of his vow. With it are also said to have been several of the family of Gessler, the tyrant who fell beneath Tell's avenging arrow. The birds of prey were flying back, eager to fatten on the body of slain liberty in Switzerland.
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