Here they were sheltered from the wind and, spreading out the nets to form a bed, they laid themselves down in the bottom of the boat, pulling the sail partly over them.
"This is jolly enough," Ryan said.

"It is certainly pleasanter to lie here and look at the stars than to be shut up in that hiding place of Jules's." "It is a great nuisance having to stop, though," Terence replied.
"It is a loss of some forty miles." "I don't mind how long this lasts," Ryan said cheerfully.

"I could go on for a month at this work, providing the provisions would hold out." "I don't much like the look of the weather, Dicky.

There were clouds on the top of some of the hills and, though we can manage the boat well enough in such weather as we have had today, it will be a different thing altogether if bad weather sets in.

I should not mind if I could talk Spanish as well as I can Portuguese.