No disturbance had been reported, said the guardsmen who rode beside him.
Up in the hills there had been some depredations, but that was all.
"All ?" groaned Mr.Hobbs.

"All?
Hang it all, man, wot do you call all?
You haven't heard 'alf all of it yet.

I tell you, there's been the devil to pay.

Wait till the Colonel comes back from Ganlook Gap.

He'll have news for you; take it from me, he will.