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Replying, Mr. Edwards said the memorial had been
erected for two reasons. One was that he liked a balance,
and as the medallion of Charles Keene was on one side of
the memorial stone he thought there should be something
on the other side; and secondly because Lord Rosebery
told him, at the opening of the Library, that the reason
why he did not refer to Leigh Hunt in his speech on that
occasion was because he was under the impression that
Dickens had taken him as one of his characters (Harold
Skimpole) in "Bleak House." But he was sure that
when Lord Rosebery and others who were of his way of
thinking knew the facts their minds would be disabused
of such an idea.