"Here they are."
The Abbé Rémy held out his hand.
"But the king has given them to me on one condition."
"What?"
"That you drink to his health."
"Oh, if that is all!"
He held out his glass, into which Bougainville tipped the neck of the bottle.
"Stop! stop!" said the abbé.
"Come, now!" Bougainville insisted, "half a glass? Well! the king would not be pleased to see only half a glass drunk to his health."
"Really," the Abbé Rémy said jovially, "twelve hundred livres deserve a whole glass. Fill it quite full, Antoine; and here's to the king's health!"