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We are told how, at a critical moment in the great battle of Sempach, when the Swiss had failed to break the serried ranks of the Austrian knights, a man of Unterwalden, Arnold von Winkelried by name, came to the rescue.
"Would not that end in 'Mine be a cot, beside the rill'?" said he, with an intonation of absurd sentiment. "Well, and suppose an enemy came, would duty prompt not the Hay with the joke or Winkelried on the spears?" "Nay, why not 'It is my duty to take care of Lucy." "Then Lucy ought to be broken on her own wheel." "Not at all! It is Lucy's duty to keep her Colin from running into danger."
The flanks of the Austrian host began to advance so as to enclose the small peasant force, and involve it in irremediable destruction. A moment of dismay and stillness ensued. Then Arnold von Winkelried of Unterwalden, with an eagle glance saw the only means of saving his country, and, with the decision of a man who dares by dying to do all things, shouted aloud: 'I will open a passage.
Though this was said carelessly, the appeal to the recollection and gratitude of those he had served was too direct to be overlooked. Melchior de Willading, the pious clavier, and the Signor Grimaldi all testified in behalf of the prisoner, freely admitting that, without his coolness and skill, the Winkelried and all she held would irretrievably have been lost.
His father was again falsely jocular: "What? and catch the train after giving it ten minutes' start?" "Cassandra will take me," said the young man earnestly. "I needn't ride her hard, sir. Or perhaps you would lend me your Winkelried? I should be down with him in little better than three hours." "Even then, you know, the park-gates would be locked." "Well, I could stable him in the village.
He and Winkelried got hold of our plans in that Bulgarian affair last year and checkmated me. He carries his wares to the best buyers Berlin and St. Petersburg. So there's a woman, is there? I've found that there usually is!" "There's a very charming young American girl, to be more exact." The old man growled and eyed Armitage sharply, while Armitage studied the photograph.
WINKELRIED. Then is the burden of our legends true, That we came hither from a distant land? Oh, tell us what you know, that our new league May reap fresh vigor from the leagues of old. STAUFFACHER. Hear, then, what aged herdsmen tell. There dwelt A mighty people in the land that lies Back to the north.
The moving spirit of man's greatness!" "I'm not sure," said Ethel; "I think looking for fame is like wanting a reward at once. I had rather people forgot themselves. Do you think Arnold von Winkelried thought about fame when he threw himself on the spears?" "He got it," said Norman. "Yes; he got it for the good of other people, not to please himself.
"I am not as violent as I shall be if I get a troop of cavalry from Port Myer down here and hunt you like rabbits through the hills. And I advise you to cable Winkelried at Vienna that the game is all off!" Chauvenet suddenly jumped toward the table, the revolver still swinging at arm's length. "You know too much!"
He bowed among them like a tree, And thus made way for liberty. Pierced through and through Winkelried fell dead, but he had made a gap in the Austrian line, and into this gap rushed the Swiss patriots. Victory was theirs and the Cantons were free. Tamerlane was the son of the chief of a Mongolian tribe in Central Asia.
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