With our force we should carry it in half an hour.

We know that the garrison consists of only fifty men, besides a score or so of grooms and servants." "So we heard; but I am mistaken if there were not more than double that number engaged on the wall.

Still, as you say, there will be no great difficulty in carrying the place.

The ladders will be ready in a couple of hours, and De Beauvoir will bring in, from the farmhouses, plenty of planks and beams for throwing bridges across the moat.

It is two hours since he set out with the horsemen, so as to catch the Huguenot farmers asleep." As they returned to the spot where the men were engaged in cooking their breakfast, while some were occupied in constructing ladders from young trees that had been felled for the purpose, a gentleman rode in.
"What is your news, De Villette ?" "The news is bad.