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"Until I came to Brandham Hall the world of my imagination had been peopled by fictitious beings who behaved as I wanted them to behave; at Brandham Hall it was inhabited by real people who had the freedom of both worlds; in the flesh they could give my imagination what it needed, and in my solitary musings I endowed them with certain magical qualities but did not otherwise idealize them. I did not need to."

Dnf... just don't care about the characters or story

Very British.
Come a cropper, "Pax," "the mater," cricketers in white flannels, wasn't cricket, the villagers seemed like Boers...