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Updated: May 22, 2025
On the foreground close to you is the Hamlet of Konigs-Wusterhausen, with tolerable Lime-tree Avenue leading to it, and the air of something sylvan from your Hill-top. Descending, advancing through your Lime-tree Avenue, you come upon the backs of office-houses, out-houses, stables or the like, on your left hand I have guessed, extending along the Highway.
Through thee, my child, shall the obliterated inscription on the old, weather-beaten grave-stone go forth to future generations in clear, golden characters. The old pair shall again wander through the streets arm-in-arm, or sit with their fresh, healthy cheeks on the bench under the lime-tree, and smile and nod at rich and poor.
'I can tell you one soon enough', said True; and then he told the king what he had done to cure his own eyes, and the king set off that very afternoon to the lime-tree, as you may fancy, and his eyes were quite cured as soon as he rubbed them with the dew which was on the leaves in the morning.
It seemed to her as if she scarcely had a voice in this, for the other, the alien Billy, was acting, and it was she who must go down by night to the lime-tree. Billy's glance fell upon Marion, whose eyes were fixed on her in boundless expectancy. Billy smiled and shook her head a little and said, "No, I can tell you nothing." Marion did not answer, but her eyes filled with tears.
"I have one finished picture, sir," said the poor boy; "but the price is high!" He brought it, in a faint-hearted way; for he had shown it to five picture-dealers, and all five agreed it was hard. He had painted a lime-tree, distant fifty yards, and so painted it that it looked something like a lime-tree fifty yards off.
Aye, and all my young life's happiness, meseemed, was like that tree-torn up by the roots, and I gazed spellbound at the blasted lime-tree till I was affrighted by a new horror; on the furthest rim of the sky, on the side where the town lay, I beheld a line of light which waxed broader and brighter till it was rose and blood-red.
He was about to proceed to the smithy, when a woman's voice called him under the lime-tree. On the platform stood his wife the Czarina, in her morning dress. She had massive limbs and large feet; her face was stout and plain, her eyes were not level, but had a steady expression. "How early you are up this morning, Little Father?" she said. "Is it early? It is six at any rate!"
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!"
"No, they won't," said Harry; "I'll go," and catching up the bellows, he walked boldly up towards the hole. "I say," he said, "you two get boughs, and if the wasps do come out you can beat them down." There was a minute of intense interest, during which Harry crept close up to the hole, and Philip and Fred, armed with lime-tree boughs, stood as body guard to protect the assaulting party.
My child, to whom I had as yet told nothing, in order to spare her, then asked me, "Father, what is the matter with all the people; are they, too, bewitched?" Whereupon I came to myself again and went into the churchyard to look after them. But all were gone save my churchwarden, Claus Bulken, who stood under the lime-tree, whistling to himself.
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