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And it wasn’t the likeness to England that he found interesting, but rather the difference... the bleak rawness of the countryside and the sight of whole colonies of peoples as strange and foreign as the Czechs and Poles providing a sort of alien background to the whole picture.

I’m so bored at this point. I’m almost halfway through the book, but I’m exhausted by these long, drawn-out paragraphs that are constantly hinting at some hidden subtext or unspoken tension. I honestly don’t know how much longer it’s going to go on like this. Even if there really is something going on beneath the surface, I’ve completely lost any curiosity I might have had about it by now.

"The few farms that remained fell into the hands of Poles and Czechs, solid, square people who were a little pagan in their closeness to the earth and the animals which surrounded them, sturdy people, not too moral ..."

I think the detail about "the old woman who never left the dark north wing and was simply known as “she” in the family" was probably meant to add a sense of mystery to the story, but I’ve been so bored that it didn’t really spark any curiosity in me. I’d say the argument between Olivia and Anson in this last part was the only thing that added some color to the story.

The book is moving a bit slowly. There are so many names, and it’s pretty clear there are some complicated relationships going on too.