Nothing can be more picturesque or solitary. My father was in the Austrian service, and retired upon a pension and his patrimony, and purchased this feudal residence, and the small estate on which it stands, a bargain. But here, in this lonely and primitive place, where everything is so marvelously cheap, I really don't see how ever so much more money would at all materially add to our comforts, or even luxuries. My father is English, and I bear an English name, although I never saw England. Scantily enough ours would have answered among wealthy people at home. Eight or nine hundred a year does wonders. A small income, in that part of the world, goes a great way. In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss.
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