How does the euphemism "grew silent for all time" affect this sentence?
A. For two hours I sat there, thinking of bygone times;
B. recalling old scenes, and summoning half-forgotten faces out of the mists of the past;
C. listening, in fancy, to voices that long ago grew silent for all time, and to once familiar songs that nobody sings now.
D. The euphemism indicates that the narrator is thinking about old friends who have died.