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Almost at the same moment ten or twelve men burst into the room rather than entered it, the noise that continued outside let it be guessed that a great number of others was standing on the stairs and in the passages, ready, were it required, to come to the assistance of the others.
All these men were armed, and it was easy to recognise them at once as guards of the King, or rather of His Eminence the Cardinal.