Mr. Hippy felt half inclined to make proposals to Miss Evergreen; but understanding from Mr. Forester that, from the death of her lover in early youth, that lady had irrevocably determined on a single life,[135] he comforted himself with passing half his time at Melincourt Castle, and dancing the little Foresters on his knee, whom he taught to call him ‘grandpapa Hippy,’ and seemed extremely proud of the imaginary relationship. Mr. Forester disposed of Redrose Abbey to Sir Telegraph Paxarett, who, after wearing the willow twelve months, married, left off driving, and became a very respectable specimen of an English country gentleman. We must not conclude without informing those among our tender-hearted readers who would be much grieved if Miss Danaretta Contantina Pinmoney should have been disappointed in her principal object of making a _good match_, that she had at length the satisfaction, through the skilful management of her mother, of making the happiest of men of Lord Anophel Achthar. THE END _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_. ----- Footnote 1: The following is the motto of the title-page of the first edition:—‘Nous nous moquons des Paladins! quand ces maximes romanesques commencèrent à devenir ridicules, ce changement fut moins l’ouvrage de la raison que celui des mauvaises mœurs.’—ROUSSEAU. Footnote 2: Written in 1817.—Published in 1818. Footnote 3: Hor. Epist. I. ii. 27–30. Footnote 4: Junius. Footnote 5: For Lucy Gray and Alice Fell, see Mr. Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. Footnote 6: Coleridge’s ‘Friend.’ Footnote 7: