All the horses were safe.

Nothing was missing anywhere but Lion.
'I 'ouldn't take twenty pounds for that dog,' said Mr Prothero when he returned to the house, and sat down to breakfast.
'Hadn't we better send to look for them ?' asked Mrs Prothero timidly.
'I'll see 'em hanged first.

What! go and make another hullabaloo all through the country, as if one wasn't enough in one house.

No, not I.
Let 'em go to sea, or where they will; but don't tell anybody anything about 'em.

Let people think what they will; I only wish I was at the world's end.