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Carmilla

1

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

do

n't

see

how

ever

so

much

more

money

would

at

all

materially

add

to

our

comforts

,

or

even

luxuries

.

2

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

.

3

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

.

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4

Over

all

this

the

schloss

shows

its

many-windowed

front

;

its

towers

,

and

its

Gothic

chapel

.

5

The

forest

opens

in

an

irregular

and

very

picturesque

glade

before

its

gate

,

and

at

the

right

a

steep

Gothic

bridge

carries

the

road

over

a

stream

that

winds

in

deep

shadow

through

the

wood

.

I

have

said

that

this

is

a

very

lonely

place

.

Judge

whether

I

say

truth

.

Looking

from

the

hall

door

towards

the

road

,

the

forest

in

which

our

castle

stands

extends

fifteen

miles

to

the

right

,

and

twelve

to

the

left

.

The

nearest

inhabited

village

is

about

seven

of

your

English

miles

to

the

left

.

6

The

nearest

inhabited

schloss

of

any

historic

associations

,

is

that

of

old

General

Spielsdorf

,

nearly

twenty

miles

away

to

the

right

.

7

I

have

said

"

the

nearest

inhabited

village

,

"

because

there

is

,

only

three

miles

westward

,

that

is

to

say

in

the

direction

of

General

Spielsdorf

's

schloss

,

a

ruined

village

,

with

its

quaint

little

church

,

now

roofless

,

in

the

aisle

of

which

are

the

moldering

tombs

of

the

proud

family

of

Karnstein

,

now

extinct

,

who

once

owned

the

equally

desolate

chateau

which

,

in

the

thick

of

the

forest

,

overlooks

the

silent

ruins

of

the

town

.

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8

Respecting

the

cause

of

the

desertion

of

this

striking

and

melancholy

spot

,

there

is

a

legend

which

I

shall

relate

to

you

another

time

.

9

I

must

tell

you

now

,

how

very

small

is

the

party

who

constitute

the

inhabitants

of

our

castle

.

I

do

n't

include

servants

,

or

those

dependents

who

occupy

rooms

in

the

buildings

attached

to

the

schloss

.

Listen

,

and

wonder

!

My

father

,

who

is

the

kindest

man

on

earth

,

but

growing

old

;

and

I

,

at

the

date

of

my

story

,

only

nineteen

.

Eight

years

have

passed

since

then

.

10

I

and

my

father

constituted

the

family

at

the

schloss

.

My

mother

,

a

Styrian

lady

,

died

in

my

infancy

,

but

I

had

a

good-natured

governess

,

who

had

been

with

me

from

,

I

might

almost

say

,

my

infancy

.

I

could

not

remember

the

time

when

her

fat

,

benignant

face

was

not

a

familiar

picture

in

my

memory

.

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