She likes the Tuscan brogue, not that of Kerry.

She says you smell too much of the stable to be admitted to ladies' society; and last Sunday fortnight, when she did me the honour to speak to me last, said, "I wonder, Sir Charles Lyndon, a gentleman who has been the King's ambassador can demean himself by gambling and boozing with low Irish blacklegs!" Don't fly in a fury! I'm a cripple, and it was Lindonira said it, not I.' This piqued me, and I resolved to become acquainted with Lady Lyndon; if it were but to show her Ladyship that the descendant of those Barrys, whose property she unjustly held, was not an unworthy companion for any lady, were she ever so high.

Besides, my friend the knight was dying: his widow would be the richest prize in the three kingdoms.

Why should I not win her, and, with her, the means of making in the world that figure which my genius and inclination desired?
I felt I was equal in blood and breeding to any Lyndon in Christendom, and determined to bend this haughty lady.

When I determine, I look upon the thing as done.
My uncle and I talked the matter over, and speedily settled upon a method for making our approaches upon this stately lady of Castle Lyndon.