C) The phrase creates an image of people walking through several inches of trash, which implies a filthy environment. The entire text is talking about how dirty it is and how it is hard to walk through with all the trash and filth in the way.
<span>It shall be a serious wrong for anyone to lead a lord into trivial affairs, for the people must ever hold their lords high in estimation out of respect to their honorable positions. </span>
Narrator. They speak in the literary work.