He's to stop at our house." "Why doesn't he go to Barracks ?" "Old Captain's there and they might not agree.

Oh ouaie, he'll have his hands full, I'm thinking.

And if he's not careful it's a crack on the head and a drop over the Coupee he'll be getting." "Ah!" said Peter Mauger.
"Come you along and see what kind of chap he is." "Aw well, I don't mind," and they strolled away to inspect the new Mine Captain, who was to brace up the slackened ropes and bring the enterprise to a successful issue.
"Did you know he was going to stop with us, Nance ?" asked Bernel, as they groped their way out after due interval.
"I heard father tell mother this morning." "Where's he to sleep ?" "He's to have my room and I'm coming up into the loft.

I shall take the dark end, and I've put up a curtain across." "Shoo! We'll hear enough about the mines now," and they crept out behind a gorse bush, and went off across the common towards the clump of wind-whipped trees inside which the houses of Little Sark clustered for companionship and shelter from the south-west gales..