TREMAINE,

OR THE

MAN OF REFINEMEN T.

SECOND EDITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

:

TREMAIΝΕ,

OR, THE

MAN OF REFINEMENT.

CHAP. IFORNIA

SUSPENSE.

"The house doth keep itself,

There's none within."

SHAKSPEARE.

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 wont, to take his horse. The hall was unpeopled by servants; but as that, since Tremaine's seclusion, was but a common occurrence, it seemed nothing particular, and