How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
The rose and honey-suckle clung to the cottage walls, the ivy crept round the trunks of the trees. (32.52)
This description of the garden at the Maylies’ country cottage shows the contrast between the cramped and imprisoning urban setting, and the relative freedom of the country – even the flowers are allowed to grow where they will (on the walls, around the trees), rather than be stuck in beds and in rows.
Quote #5
Hard by, was a little churchyard: not crowded with tall, unsightly gravestones, but full of humble mounds covered with fresh turf and moss, beneath which the old people of the village lay at rest. (32.52)
Compare this to the graveyard of chapter five, where Mr. Bayton’s wife was buried. In that city graveyard, the poor folks were crammed into the same grave, so that Mrs. Bayton’s coffin was stuffed under just a few feet of earth, and the minister mumbled the funeral service in about four minutes before running off again. What sets the country churchyard apart is the spaciousness – the graves aren’t cramped together – and also the fact that the graves don’t have any unnatural gravestones, but are kind of at one with the earth.
Quote #6
The poor people were so neat and clean, and knelt so reverently in prayer, that it seemed a pleasure, not a tedious duty, their assembling there together; and, though the singing might be rude, it was real. (32.54)
This provides some more contrast between the country church in the Maylies’ village, and the big workhouse chapels where the poor people were forced to march every Sunday.