“Just come to that seat now you are here, Miss Stanley, and look down the
other path; there’s a vista of just the common sort. Followed by Van Galgebrok and others of his retinue, he then rushed
into the room, where Rowland, Sir Cecil, and their attendants, stood with drawn
swords prepared to receive them. 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. "I should call it putting
him out of the way. I hope
you won’t mind if I say first that I think it does me an extraordinary honor that
you should think of any one like myself so highly and seriously, and, secondly,
that I wish it had not been written. I was certain of it.
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