She agreed entirely with her
brother. 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. ‘I thought it must be you,’ cried the woman. He came in apologetically; all the old “Well, and how ARE we?”
note gone; and once he asked Ann Veronica, almost furtively,
“How’s Alice getting on, Vee?” Finally, on the Day, he appeared like his old
professional self transfigured, in the most beautiful light gray trousers Ann
Veronica had ever seen and a new shiny silk hat with a most becoming roll. She put a hand to the lad’s cold cheek and choked on a sob. "I did see them on the platform of the bridge—the child and
his preserver! They were not struck by the fallen ruin, nor whelmed in the
roaring flood,—or, if they were, they escaped as I escaped. Her companion was a person of no inferior condition. We girls, my sister and I, were left quite
alone when our father died, and I made up my mind to make some little place in
the world for myself. She was glad to join in
the stream of hurrying homeward workers that was now welling out of a
thousand places of employment, and to imitate their driven, preoccupied haste. I’m
damaged goods. "I don't understand you, gentlemen," stammered he, at length. Sheppard, with a deep sigh,
perceiving that her benefactor hesitated to pronounce the word. I think John
42
will be there. Then her eyes flashed.
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