"Here," said the prince, "are
the terms upon which you may have their lives: Complete
absolution, and Apostolic benediction for my people and myself
this very night, I on my side making submission to the Holy
Father's will to the extent of releasing my mother from duress,
with the condition that she leaves Portugal at once and does not
return. As for the banished bishop and his successor, matters
must remain as they are; but you can satisfy your conscience on
that score by yourself confirming the appointment of Don
Zuleyman. Come, my lord, I am being generous, I think. In the
enlargement of my mother I afford you the means of satisfying
Rome. If you have learnt your lesson from what I here proposed,
your conscience should satisfy you of the rest."
"Be it so," the Cardinal answered hoarsely. "I will return with
you to Coimbra and do your will."
Thereupon, without any tinge of mockery, but in completest
sincerity in token that the feud between them was now completely
healed, Affonso Henriques went down upon his knees, like the true
and humble son of Holy Church he accounted himself, to ask a
blessing at the Cardinal's hands.
II. THE FALSE DEMETRIUS
Boris Godunov and the Pretended Son of Ivan the Terrible
The news of it first reached him whilst he sat at supper in the
great hall of his palace in the Kremlin.
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