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The English Countryside NEW ZEALAND sergeant who A reached England with the Second Echelon began his first letter home in these terms: "England-and the English — have been a revelation. Remember I had often said that I never wanted to see the place; I had imagined that the towns were dull and industrialised and gloomy, and the country ‘ pretty-pretty.’ "In fact the villages (and towns) have a mellow beauty far beyond anything I had imagined-and the countryside is beyond description. "The people, too, are amazingly friendly. I haven’t seen any of that English ‘ standoffishness,’ though in trains and buses and hotels they are as quiet as mice. No one ever dreams of the unheard-of boldness of engaging his neighbour in chatty conversation, This is particularly noticeable in hotels. "This English quiet was very soothing at first, but I am beginning to sigh for our cruder but livelier ways. They say we are ‘just like the English.’ Don’t believe it. There’s a world of difference."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 66, 27 September 1940, Page 2
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165BEYOND DESCRIPTION New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 66, 27 September 1940, Page 2
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