Read this excerpt, then answer the question that follows. It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black. . . . It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys. –Hard Times, Charles Dickens How does the narrator describe the town? dirty and industrial crowded and busy rural and old-fashioned pleasant and welcoming