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In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle or schloss.

A small income in that part of the world goes a great way. Eight or nine hundred a year does wonders.

Scantily enough, ours would have answered among wealthy people at home. My father is English,

and I bear an English name, although I never saw England. But here in this lonely and primitive

place where everything is so

marvelously cheap I really don't see however so much more money would at all materially

add to our comforts or even luxuries. My father was in the Austrian service and retired

upon a pension and his patrimony and purchased this feudal residence and the

estate on which it stands a bargain.

Nothing can be more picturesque or solitary.

It stands on a slight eminence in a forest.

The road, very old and narrow, passes in front of its drawbridge, never raised in my time,

and its moat stocked with perch, and sailed over by many swans and floating on its surface white

fleets of water lilies. Over all this the slos shows its manywindowed front, its towers, and its Gothic chapel.

That picturesque opening is from Sheridan Le Left News Carmilla.

Yes, a Gothic chapel and a Gothic story.

Carmilla, so you settled on pronouncing it Carmilla finally?

Yeah, well I'm going with consensus on this, but the story will always be Carmia to me because our friend Tony

Lopez Tony was our guest host on House on the Borderlands that's right he's the

one that recommended this story to me years ago and I read it and loved it and thought it was great and he

pronounced it Karmia.

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