For the villagers paid curiously little attention to him still.
Both groups being heretics, as they saw it, the villagers hadn't paid much attention.
Will the villagers pay anything out of there meagre cash now or perhaps in the longer term?
They put him in their chicken coop, where villagers pay to gawk.
But the villagers pay for his service by doling out a tribute in the form of paddy or other items.
He only holds mass in Fontamara if the villagers pay him to, and he raises his price every time.
'The villagers paid a good price: their crops failed this year and they were hungry.'
He understands that the villagers were paying sacrifice to ambuli to vent his anger.
The villagers paid taxes on buffalo, goats and beehives.
Sikhs and villagers paid bribes and got his sister rescued.