... Abolafio, the farmer of the royal customs, and his brother Fernandez, the licentiate, and there were others all of them menof substance, some even holding office under the Crown. Not one was there ... prideabated."Outside, under the tree, the figures of the men-at-arms were moving. Expeditiously, and with indifference,they went about the preparations for the task entrusted to them. The Cardinal writhed, and ... Kremlin, led on by the arch-traitor Shuiski himself, to the cry of "Death to the heretic! Death to the impostor!"They broke into the palace, and swarmed up the stairs into the Tsar's...