"I'd undertake to hold the Gouliots against the lot of them if the tide was at flood." "And you really think they may come across here again, Aunt Jeanne ?" I asked.
"Ma fe, yes, I do.

They were angry men before, but if the Guernsey men have smoked them out they'll be simply devils, and it's just as well to look ahead.

How is that arm of yours ?" "The other one's all right.

I can do my share." "You'll be wanted if they come.

I doubt if we can muster more than thirty men at most, and there may be more than that left of them, and madmen at that." "We won't let them land." "You can't close every door with thirty men, mon gars." "One at the Coupee, if they make for Gorey.