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Updated: June 12, 2025
This much was accomplished in the trip East last Fall." My father spoke significantly. "It wasn't all that was accomplished, by Heaven! There's a lawsuit coming; there's a will that's to be broken that can't stand when I get at it. You are mighty good and fine about money when other folks are getting it; but when it's coming to you, you're another man." Tell's voice was pitched high now.
Neither is it possible for a bailie named Gessler to have occupied the castle at the date assigned, the ruins of which have so long been pointed out as being those of his former abode. So, also, the celebrated Tell's Chapel on the Vier Waldstaette See, at Kuesnach, was certainly not built to commemorate the exploits of Schiller's and Rossini's Swiss hero.
We could not see to study, and we were playing boisterously about the benches of our improvised schoolroom, Marjie, Mary Gentry, Lettie and Jim Conlow, Tell Mapleson, old Tell's boy, O'mie, both the Mead boys, and the four Anderson children. Suddenly Marjie, who was watching the rain beating against the west window, called, "Phil, come here! What is that long, narrow, red light down by the creek?"
There was a hiss as the shaft rushed through the air, and the next moment Gessler the Governor fell dead on the deck, pierced through the heart. Tell's second arrow had found its mark, as his first had done. There is not much more of the story of William Tell. The death of Gessler was a signal to the Swiss to rise in revolt, and soon the whole country was up in arms against the Austrians.
"Then it canna be dune," said Leeby, falling despairingly into a chair, "for they may be here ony meenute." "It's most michty," said Jess, turning on her husband, "'at ye should tak a pleasure in bringin' this hoose to disgrace. Hoo did ye no tell's suner?" "I fair forgot," Hendry answered, "but what's a' yer steer?" "Steer!" she exclaimed. "Is't no time we was makkin' a steer?
The waves still dashed high, the wind still howled, but under Tell's firm hand the boat seemed to steady itself, and the rowers bent to their work with new courage and strength in answer to his commanding voice. Tell, leaning forward, peered through the darkness and the spray. There was one place where he knew it would be possible to land where a bold and desperate man at least might land.
He don't ever shut up his guide-book. He knows more about this lake than the fishes in it. Besides, they CALL it 'Tell's Chapel' you know that yourself. You ever been over here before?" "Yes." "I haven't. It's my first trip. But we've been all around Paris and everywhere. I'm to enter Harvard next year. Studying German all the time now. Can't enter till I know German. This book's Otto's grammar.
But the Bailiff escaped the storm also, and landed by Küssnacht, where he fell with Tell's arrow through him. It should be remembered that this was Tell's deed alone: the hour which the people had agreed upon for their deliverance had not come; they had no part in the death of Gessler.
But he has time to think while waiting, and his soliloquy is only his thinking made audible. Delivered with even a slight excess of declamatory fervor, the lines are ridiculously out of keeping with Tell's character; but they can be spoken so as to seem at least tolerably natural, as natural, perhaps, as any soliloquy.
"And shall we make this party up to the chapel?" The chapel in question was Tell's chapel ever so far up the lake. A journey in a steam-boat would have been necessary. "No!" said he, shouting out his refusal at her. "We will not." "You needn't be angry about it," said she; as though he could have failed to be stirred by such a proposition at such a time.
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