TREMAINE,

OR THE

M-
AN OF REFINEMENT.

SECOND EDITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

TREMAINE,

OR, THE

MAN OF REFINEMENT.

CHAP. I

SUSPENSE.

“ The house doth keep itself, There's none within."

SHAKSPEARE.

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It was the next morning but one after Tremaine had received the important packet from Georgina, that Evelyn, having heard nothing from him in return, rode over to Woodington. The lodges were tenanted as usual, and the gate thrown open with the customary civil salutes; and, when he arrived at the great hall door, a groom ran out from the offices, as he had been wonty, to take his horse. The ball was unpeopled by seryants; but as that, since Tremaine's seclusion, was but a common occurrence, it seemed nothing particular, and VOL. III.

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