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CHAPTER VIII.
"Have you heard the news?" asked Lord Maysworth one morning, bustling into the breakfast-room of Lord Gustavus de Montfort.
"What is it?" demanded that noble lord, who was sitting at breakfast with his usual satellites.
"The King of Ireland has arrived at Oxford with an immense army, intending to re-establish Elvira."
"Impossible!" cried Lord Gustavus.
"Impossible!" echoed the satellites.
"Something must be done," said Lord Maysworth.
"Thinking as I think, and as I am confident every one who hears me must think, or at least,
