And ever since, the Chapter of Liege sighs as before, 'Herstal is perhaps in a sense ours.

We had once some kind of right to it!'-- sigh inaudible in the loud public thoroughfares.

That is the Bishop's claim.

The name of him, if anybody care for it, is 'Georg Ludwig, titular COUNT OF BERG,' now a very old man: Bishop of Liege, he, and has been snatching at Herstal again, very eagerly by any skirt or tagrag that might happen to fly loose, these eight years past, in a rash and provoking manner; [_Delices du Pais de Liege_ (Liege, 1738); _Helden-Geschichte,_ ii.

57-62.]--age eighty-two at present; poor old fool, he had better have sat quiet.