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. "Who took it thence?" "Thames Darrell; the boy at your side. You’re trespassing again, and I’ve come to arrest you,’ Gerald said promptly. What a mercy that the blow aimed at her by the ruffian, Wild, though it brought her to the brink of the grave, should have restored her to reason! Ah! she stirs. She decided to call in the help of Teddy Widgett, or, failing him, of one of his sisters.
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