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And then the people, they puts me and Leuthold on the ground, and hoists this here man Tell, they call him up on their shoulders, and he starts making a speech, when up you comes, your Excellency. That's how it all was." Gessler turned pale with rage, and glared fiercely at Tell, who stood before him in the grasp of two of the bodyguard. "Ah," he said, "Tell, is it? Good-day to you, Tell.
To so steep an apex does this famous peak narrow, that but one person can stand on the summit at a time, nor was even this possible till the snow was beaten down. Returning on his steps, Leuthold, whose quiet, unflinching audacity of success was contagious, assisted each one to stand for a few moments where he had stood.
My taste in lyrics may be peculiar, but I used to love my Leuthold I wish I had him here at this moment; the bold strokes of Keller, the miniature work, the cameo-like touches, of C. F. Meyer they can write! They would doubtless paint, were there anything to paint. Holbein: did the landscape of Switzerland seduce him? And Boecklin? He fled out of its welter of raw materialism.
But they were saying their prayers, not doing obeisance to the hat. That's what they were doing. Artful that's what they are!" And Friesshardt kicked the foot of the pole viciously with his iron boot. There! Listen to that!" A voice made itself heard from behind a rock not far off. "Where did you get that hat?" said the voice. "There!" grumbled Leuthold; "they're always at it.
But Leuthold, as he lighted the fire and prepared breakfast, bade them not despair, the sun might make all right. In a few moments, one by one, the summits of the Schreckhorn, the Finsteraarhorn, the Oberaarhorn, the Altmaner, the Scheuchzerhorn, lighted by the first rays of the sun, came out like islands above the ocean of mist, which softly broke away and vanished with the advancing light.
Death of Leuthold, the Guide. Although his glacier work was now so prominent a feature of Agassiz's scientific life, his zoological studies, especially his ichthyological researches, and more especially his work on fossil fishes, went on with little interruption.
I was always one for a joke, yer know." "Here come some people," said Leuthold. "At last! And they're only the rabble, after all. You don't catch any of the better sort of people coming here." A crowd was beginning to collect on the edge of the meadow. Its numbers swelled every minute, until quite a hundred of the commoner sort must have been gathered together.
The summer closed with their famous ascent of the Jungfrau. The party consisted of twelve persons Agassiz, Desor, Forbes, Heath, and two travelers who had begged to join them, M. de Chatelier, of Nantes, and M. de Pury, of Neuchatel, a former pupil of Agassiz. The other six were guides; four beside their old and tried friends, Jacob Leuthold and Johann Wahren.
In the first act Tell saves the life of Leuthold, who is being pursued by Gessler's soldiers; and Melchthal, the patriarch of the village, is put to death on a charge of insubordination. His son Arnold loves Matilda, the sister of Gessler, and hesitates between love and duty.
In about three hours they reached the base of the Strahleck. Their two guides, Leuthold and Wahren, had engaged three additional men for this excursion, so that they now had five guides, none of whom were superfluous, since they carried with them various barometric instruments which required careful handling.
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