text:  So earnest were from the first his orders to his Italian captains to pursue in all directions their enquiries after the Count de Cergny and his family that it had become a matter of course to preface their accounts of the day's movements with--"_No_ intelligence may it please your highness of the Count de Cergny!" The siege of Limbourg however now wholly absorbed his attention; for it was a stronghold on which the utmost faith was pinned by the military science of the States