Ooh, Wouldn't We All...

"I'd love to be a tenant leaseholder on some village estate..." continued Diamant, signaling the footman for another bottle of complimentary bubbly. "I'd keep young maidservants who'd give me a hand adulterating the wine. Ah, my wife would have moley to stuff her straw mattress with. As for the outlaws, I'd either be pals with them, or else take potshots at them from behind barred windows. I'd have my horses, cattle, children and freedom. Wear a blue housecoat and marry a young girl when I'm a hundred. Yes, I'd grow a beard like my father's and be lord and master of my house like an oriental potentate.

--Gyula Krúdy, Sunflower 51 (John Bátki Trans. 1997)

Mmm, complimentary bubbly.