Four millions of people have been exterminated by famine or got rid of by emigration, but they haven't got rid of poverty.

P'raps you think that half the people in this country ought to be exterminated as well.' Here Owen was seized with a violent fit of coughing, and resumed his seat.

When the cough had ceased he say wiping his mouth with his handkerchief and listening to the talk that ensued.
'Drink is the cause of most of the poverty,' said Slyme.
This young man had been through some strange process that he called 'conversion'.

He had had a 'change of 'art' and looked down with pious pity upon those he called 'worldly' people.

He was not 'worldly', he did not smoke or drink and never went to the theatre.