Ever Ever since they they had had found found the the skeleton skeleton and and got got upon upon this this train train of of thought thought , , they they had had spoken spoken lower lower and and lower lower , , and and they they had had almost almost got to to whispering whispering by by now now , , so so that that the the sound sound of of their their talk talk hardly hardly interrupted interrupted the the silence silence of of the the wood wood . . All of a sudden , out of the middle of the trees in front of us , a thin , high , trembling voice struck up the well-known air and words :
С тех пор как они нашли скелет и пришли к этой мысли, они говорили все тише и тише, и теперь они почти перешли на шепот, так что звук их разговора едва нарушал тишину леса. Внезапно из-за деревьев перед нами раздался тонкий, высокий, дрожащий голос, наполнивший хорошо знакомый воздух и слова: