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. The cork came out with a loud pop, and Anna could not help wondering how it must sound to the patient little crowd outside. And Capes was thinking that his wife was a supremely beautiful woman. A large body of the constables of Westminster next made their appearance, the chief of whom entered the Lodge, where they were speedily joined by the civic authorities. Remember that I’ve seen Brewis Charvill, and I’m well aware of your identity.
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