Whereas descriptions of the city, and especially the slums, are always negative and bleak, here even the poor are desirable and healthy. This passage exemplifies the idealism with which the novel sees the countryside. The poor people were so neat and clean, and knelt so reverently in assembling there together and though the singing might be rude, it was real, and sounded more musical (to Oliver’s ears at least) than any he had ever heard in church before.” Chapter 32, page 293 “There was the little church, in the morning, with the green leaves fluttering at the windows: the birds singing without: filling the homely building with its fragrance.
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