Living Beyond our Means. 2<S3 



and the duty to represent it in society, nobody expecting of 

 younger brothers more than is expected of other gentlemen. 



We might have lived happy and not surpassing our income, 

 if Salm could have lived like other majors ; but Felix was a 

 Prince, and even if he had wished to economise, for which, 

 however he had little talent, in consequence of his education, 

 he could not live so quietly and retiredly as prudence would 

 have advised, for propriety required of him more than from 

 other officers of his grade. Though I saw all the evil conse- 

 quences ot such a course I had to submit, and being obliged 

 to fulfil the social duties expected from a Princess, and being 

 also by no means free from the inclinations of other women, I 

 did as I was told was proper — and tried not to think of the 

 end. In this I succeeded tolerably well up to the end of th^ 

 year, but knowing that its first days would bring an immense 

 number of little bJls, I greeted the first of January with a very 

 heavy heart. 



