the evil doers!'

"Here he signed to Mamón to go and fulfill his order."

Here is another scene with the Great Prince.

"He stopped, and turned with an air of stern command to Kourítzin.

"The latter had addressed himself to speak--'The ambassadors from
Tver ... from the'....

"'From the prince, thou wouldst say,' burst in Iván Vassílievitch: 'I
no longer recognize a Prince of Tver. What--I ask thee, what did he
promise in the treaty of conditions which his bishop was to
negotiate?--the bishop who is with us now.'

"'To dissolve his alliance with the Polish king, Kazimír, and never
without thy knowledge to renew his intercourse with him; nor with
thine ill-wishers, nor with Russian deserters: to swear, in his own
and his children's name, never to yield to Lithuania.'

"'Hast thou still the letter to King Kazimír from our good
brother-in-law and ally--him whom thou yet callest the Great Prince
of Tver?'

"'I have it, my lord.'

"'What saith it?'

"'The Prince of Tver urgeth the Polish King against the Lord of All