Momont saw to the latter part himself.

May the saints direct that the drinking have not the same effect upon our friends that the corking had on Momont, or there will be many sick head-aches in Coron on the next morning." "There will be too many of us for that, Jacques.

Five hundred throats will dispose of much good wine, so as to do but little injury." "That would be true, your reverence, were not some throats so much wider than others.

You will always see that one porker half empties the trough before others have moistened their snouts in the mess." "We will see to that, Jacques.

We will appoint some temperate fellow butler, or rather some strong-fisted fellow, whose thick head much wine will not hurt; though he may swill himself he will not let others do so." "If it were not displeasing to yourself and to M.Henri, I would undertake all that myself.