“I have just ordered a carriage for her. It just made me mad to the boiling point. His breath grew shallower as he approached the room, conscious of the loudness of his hallway-reverberated footfalls. Miss Stanley, it was manifest, had given him Ann Veronica’s address. Who could say that the two weren't in collusion? When a chap like Spurlock jumped the traces, cherchez la femme, every time. "Certainly," replied Jonathan, with the most perfect sangfroid, "I'll undertake to free you from the boy. Many other wards,—especially on the Master Debtor's side,—have been necessarily omitted in the foregoing hasty enumeration. 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.
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