Edward Chester and Mr. Haredale talk together, having made their peace. Mr. Haredale gives his blessing on Emma and Edward’s marriage, announcing that he is going to the Continent to join a monastery for the last few remaining years of his life. As they speak, they hear a loud shouting from outside. They look out and see a mob coming forward, bearing Gabriel Varden and Barnaby, who has been released from prison. Mrs. Rudge has come to live with the Vardens, so mother and son are soon reunited. That night, at midnight, Edward Chester attends Hugh’s burial, having recently learned that he was his brother. He had requested to meet Hugh before his execution, but Hugh refused.

Mr. and Mrs. Varden, Dolly, and Joe talk about the past and can laugh about it now. Mrs. Varden has changed considerably; she is now happy and content. A knock on the door interrupts their festivities. When the door is opened, Miggs walks in, accompanied by her nephew, who is helping her with her trunk. Miggs announces that she has returned, having refused an offer from her married sister to live with her free of charge. As she carries her trunk up the stairs to her old room, Mr. Varden asks his wife if this is what she wants. Mrs. Varden tells him to throw Miggs out of the house immediately. Miggs is shocked, certain that the family will come to ruin without her. She insults and laughs at the Vardens, who make no response. Finally she pulls her nephew’s hair and criticizes him for not helping her with her trunk more quickly, but he refuses to accompany her any more and leaves. The Vardens help Miggs to the street.

Before he leaves for the Continent, Mr. Haredale decides to go for one last visit to the Warren. He is advised to take a sword with him because the roads have not been safe since the rioting. Mr. Haredale passes the Maypole and is glad to see that there is smoke once again rising from the chimneys. He arrives at the ruins of his home and circles the ashes. He sits under a tree to contemplate his life there, when he hears a voice address him. It is Sir John Chester, who finds it fateful that they have met once again at this place. They duel, and Mr. Haredale plunges his sword into Sir John’s heart.

Mr. Haredale escapes to the Continent and enters a monastery. Sir John Chester’s valet, upon learning of his master’s death, steals all his money and has some success before he is imprisoned and dies in jail. Lord George Gordon is charged with high treason but is found not guilty. He is, nevertheless, excommunicated from the Church of England and eventually converts to Judaism. He is later imprisoned for libel and dies in prison thirteen years after the riots. Gashford dies an unknown man. Simon Tappertit is released. He now has two wooden legs. He becomes a shoeblack, marries a widow, and supposedly lives happily.

Miggs become a guard at a female prison. Joe and Dolly are married and reopen the Maypole; they eventually have a large family. Mr. Willet retires and lives in a small cottage, where his friends come as frequently as they had gone to the Maypole. He eventually suffers a stroke, regains consciousness to say good-bye to his son, and dies. Barnaby and his mother live on the Maypole farm. Edward and Emma eventually return to England with a family as large as the Willets’. Grip stops talking for a whole year, but eventually he begins once again and lives long into Barnaby’s old age.