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WILLIAM TELL
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second time. Arnold of Sewa went in, and the door was banged behind him.
Five minutes later he came out, sucking the first finger of his left hand.
“No,” he said; “it can’t be done. The tyrant has convinced me.”
“I knew he would," said Arnold of Melchthal.
“Then I think you might have warned me,” snapped Arnold of Sewa, dancing with the pain of his burnt finger.
“Was it hot?"
“Boiling.”
"Ah!"
“Then he really won’t let us off the taxes?" asked the crowd in disappointed voices.
“No.”
“Then the long and short of it is,” said Walter Fürst, drawing a deep breath, "that we must rebel!”
“Rebel?" cried everybody.
