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. Lucy slipped upstairs silently. "Off with him to Newgate!" cried Jonathan. Then his tiny bow mouth opened into an adoring smile. Born on a South Sea island, she said. Two persons possessing a more comfortable stock of assurance could not be readily found. “As things are at present,” she said, “it is true.
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