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Старейшина продолжил: – Но монарх требует с нас прежний оброк и забирает наших детей, если мы не можем заплатить зерном.
The hetman continued, “Yet the monarch taxes us as before, taking our children when we cannot give him grain.
Сборщики оброка были из местных, их запомнили и при их появлении прятали зерно, угоняли скот в леса и старались не хвастаться достатком. Тупо уставясь на сборщика, крестьяне разводили руками и кивали на скудную утварь.
The tax-farmers, Rossemites in the employ of Tazenda, came periodically, but they were creatures of custom now – and the peasant had learned how to hide his grain and drive his cattle into the forest, and refrain from having his hut appear too ostentatiously prosperous.
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