Note 89
BOOK XI
[ Brides presented themselves instinctively to the imagination of the writer, as the phase of humanity which she found most interesting.]
…n I had prayed sufficiently to the dead, I cut the throats of the two sheep and let the blood run into the trench, whereon the ghosts came trooping up from Erebus—brides,[89] young bachelors, old men worn out with toil, maids who had been crossed in love, and brave men who had been killed in battle, with their armour still smirched with blood; they came from every quarter and flitted round the trench with a strange kind of scr…
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