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WILLIAM TELL
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Hedwig: “Gessler the Governor is in the town now.”
“He goes away to-day.”
“Well, wait till he has gone. You must not meet him. He bears you malice.”
“To me his malice cannot do much harm. I do what's right, and fear no enemy.”
“Those who do right,” said Hedwig, “are those he hates the most. And you know he has never forgiven you for speaking like that when you met him in the ravine. Keep away from the town for to-day. Do anything else. Go hunting, if you will."
“No,” said Tell; “I promised. I must go. Come along, Walter.”
“You aren’t going to take that poor dear child? Come here, Walter, directly minute!’
“Want to go with father,” said Walter, beginning to cry, for his father had promised to take him with him the next time he went to
