 Squire. - Allworthy then informed him, as likewise of the Company. -
»Odzookers!« answered the Squire, »I will go with thee, and so shall Sophy; for
I won't part with thee to-night; and it would be barbarous to part Tom and the
Girl.« This Offer was presently embraced by Allworthy; and Sophia consented,
having first obtained a private Promise from her Father, that he would not
mention a Syllable concerning her Marriage.
 

                               Chapter the Last.

                       In which the History is concluded.
 
Young Nightingale had been that Afternoon by Appointment to wait on his Father
who received him much more kindly than he expected. There likewise he met his
Uncle, who was returned to Town in quest of his new-married Daughter.
    This Marriage was the luckiest Incident which could have happened to the
young Gentleman; for these Brothers lived in a constant State of Contention
about the Government of their Children, both heartily despising the Method which
each other took. Each of them therefore now endeavoured as much as he could to
palliate the Offence which his own Child had committed, and to aggravate the
Match of the other. This Desire of triumphing over his Brother, added to the
many Arguments which Allworthy had used, so strongly operated on the old
Gentleman, that he met his Son with a smiling Countenance, and actually agreed
to sup with him that Evening at Mrs. Miller's.
    As for the other, who really loved his Daughter with the most immoderate
Affection, there was little Difficulty in inclining him to a Reconciliation. He
was no sooner informed by his Nephew where his Daughter and her Husband were,
than he declared he would instantly go to her. And when he arrived there, he
scarce suffered her to fall upon her Knees, before he took her up, and embraced
her with a Tenderness which affected all who saw him; and in less than a Quarter
of an Hour was as well reconciled to both her and her Husband, as if he had
himself joined their Hands.
    In this Situation were Affairs when Mr. Allworthy and his Company arrived to
complete the Happiness of Mrs. Miller, who no sooner saw Sophia, than she
guessed every Thing that had happened; and so great was her Friendship to Jones,
that it added not a few Transports to those she felt on the Happiness of her own
Daughter.
    There have not, I believe, been many Instances of a Number of People met
together, where every one was so perfectly happy, as in this Company. Amongst
whom the Father of young Nightingale enjoyed the least perfect Content; for
