SSR- Marcus

[Marcus]

"For a long time there was none, beyond the voice of a weak bird singing a trite old evening song that might doubtless have been heard on the hill at the same hour, and with the self-same trills, quavers, and breves, at any sunset of that season for centuries untold. But as they approached the village distant shouts and rattles reached their ears from some elevated spot in that direction, as yet screened from view by foliage."