POSTSCRIPT.

WHEN you come to relate those _horrid and shocking things_, there may be a danger you are not aware of. Even you yourself may fall (as little as you intend or suspect it) into seriousness. And I am afraid, if once you put off your fool’s coat, if you stand naked before cool and sober reason, you yourself may appear as inconsiderable a creature――――to use your own phrase, “as if _your name was_ Perronet.”