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For these reasons his name made a great impression on the audience, and after a short silence, one of the oldest knights, Kazko of Jaglow, said: "A difficult business!" "And for a trifle," said the prudent Mikolaj of Dlugolas. "What difference will it make to us, whether Tochtamysh or some Kutluk rules over the sons of Belial who dwell beyond the tenth-land?"
When the Polish and Lithuanian armies restore Tochtamysh to the throne of Kapchak, he will acknowledge himself "the son" of King Wladyslaw, and he has promised to bow to the cross with the whole Zlota Orda."
Tochtamysh had been placed by him on the throne of the Golden and the Blue Ords, and acknowledged as "the son." But when his sovereign authority extended from Aral to Crimea, over more lands than were in the rest of Europe, "the son" wanted to be an independent ruler.
"Tochtamysh will turn to the Christian faith," answered Macko. "He will or he will not! Can you trust dog-brothers, who do not confess Christ?" "But we are ready to lay down our lives for Christ's name," answered Powala. "And for knightly honor," added Toporczyk, the relative of the castellan; "there are some among us however who will not go.
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