Not many weeks divide us from it.

Let him give me until that night.

Then let him bring his troops and ladders and the rest of it--the care whereof is your lordship's, not mine--to a part of the walls which I will indicate, and he shall find the guards withdrawn, and Geneva at his feet." "The longest night?
But that is some weeks distant," d'Albigny answered in a grumbling tone.

Still it was evident that he was impressed by the precision of the other's promise.
"Was Rome built in a day?
Or can Geneva be destroyed in a day ?" Basterga retorted.
"If I had my hand on it!" d'Albigny answered truculently, "the task would not take more than a day!" He was a Southern Frenchman and an ardent Catholic; an officer of high rank in the employ of Savoy; for the rest, proud, brave, and difficult.
"Ay, but you have not your hand on it, M.d'Albigny!" Basterga retorted coolly.

"Nor will you ever have your hand on it, without help from me." "And that is all you have to say ?" "At present." "Very good," d'Albigny replied, nodding contemptuously.