However, we are beginning to be pretty busy.

I have been on horseback, twelve hours a day on an average, for the past week.

Gordon started yesterday for Magdeburg, and Macgregor has been two days absent, but I don't know where.
Everyone is busy, from the king himself--who is always busy about something--to the youngest drummer.

Nobody outside a small circle knows what it is all about.

Apparently we are in a state of profound peace, without a cloud in the sky, and yet the military preparations are going on actively, everywhere.
"Convoys of provisions are being sent to the frontier fortresses.
Troops are in movement from the Northern Provinces.