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Updated: June 26, 2025
There came out an article, of course in the "People's Banner," headed, "Our Prime Minister's Good Works," in which poor Lord Earlybird was ridiculed in a very unbecoming manner, and in which it was asserted that the thing was done as a counterpoise to the iniquity displayed in "hounding Ferdinand Lopez to his death." Whenever Ferdinand Lopez was mentioned he had always been hounded.
He had had the bestowal of one Garter, and he had given it to Lord Earlybird! It was, he told himself, but not correctly, the only thing that he had done on his own undivided responsibility since he had been Prime Minister. The last days of July had passed, and it had been at last decided that the Session should close on the 11th of August.
He had, however, yielded at once to Mr. Monk, and now it was to be feared that the House of Commons would not accept the Bill from his hands. In such a state of things, especially after that disagreement about Lord Earlybird, it was difficult for the old Duke to tender his advice.
The old Duke opened his mouth and lifted up his hands in unaffected surprise. The Earl of Earlybird was an old man of a very peculiar character. He had never opened his mouth in the House of Lords and had never sat in the House of Commons. The political world knew him not at all. He had a house in town, but very rarely lived there.
"Do you know anything against Lord Earlybird?" asked the Prime Minister. "Certainly nothing against him, Duke." "Nor anything in his favour?" "I know him very well, I think I may say intimately. There isn't a better man breathing." "An honour to the peerage!" said the Prime Minister. "An honour to humanity rather," said the other, "as being of all men the least selfish and most philanthropical."
A week passed by, and then the younger Duke wrote to the elder Duke saying that he had given to the matter all the consideration in his power, and that he had at last resolved to recommend her Majesty to bestow the ribbon on Lord Earlybird. He would not, however, take any step for a few days so that his friend might have an opportunity of making further remonstrance if he pleased.
He did not attempt to conceal his anger. Lord Earlybird! An old woman! One whom no other man in England would have thought of making a Knight of the Garter! It was not, he said, personal disappointment in himself. There were half-a-dozen peers whom he would willingly have seen so graced without the slightest chagrin.
It was said that the Duke had been guilty of pretentious love of virtue in taking Lord Earlybird out of his own path of life and forcing him to write K.G. after his name.
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