“It’s jolly of you to come,” said Ramage. 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. Hugging them, they crept stealthily around the house, Major Alderley leading, and wasting—so his captain acidly commented—a deal of time checking the windows and doors. But—It’s just this: who was to be hurt?” “I wish no one had to be hurt,” said Ann Veronica. The air became hot and swollen with June humidity.
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