The first of
these, the Press Room, a dark close chamber, near Waterman's Hall, obtained its
name from an immense wooden machine kept in it, with which such prisoners as
refused to plead to their indictments were pressed to death—a species of
inquisitorial torture not discontinued until so lately as the early part of the reign
of George the Third, when it was abolished by an express statute. ’
Melusine had crossed to the window that overlooked the front of the house,
and was trying to peep through a crack in the shutters. Do not imagine you can at one moment
avail yourself of our excellent regulations (with which you seem sufficiently
well acquainted), and the next break them with impunity. ’ And with that he went off to
the City, stern and silent, leaving his bacon on his plate—a great slice of bacon
hardly touched. ”
“Yes,” said his prospective fellow-sailor, “that’s very pretty.
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