Do you keep mine, you dear souls that survive the turmoils and troubles of near half a hundred years?
How changed its colour is now, since the day Sczotarska wore it round her neck, after my duel with Count Bjernaski, at Warsaw.
I never kept any beggarly books of accounts in those days.

I had no debts.

I paid royally for everything I took; and I took everything I wanted.

My income must have been very large.

My entertainments and equipages were those of a gentleman of the highest distinction; nor let any scoundrel presume to sneer because I carried off and married my Lady Lyndon (as you shall presently hear), and call me an adventurer, or say I was penniless, or the match unequal.