‘And that object
confirms me in the belief that it is not I who will shortly meet my maker. “But I—I went to Nigel Ennison for help. Annabel set her teeth hard, and turned fiercely towards Anna. Here, where every element of her surroundings was tawdry and
commonplace, and before this young man of vulgar origin and appearance, it
was striking. It was dry,
as if she had powdered it. Creeping stealthily up stairs, unmasking a dark lantern,
and glancing into each room as he passed, he was startled in one of them by the
appearance of Mrs. “Yes, I believe he is. ‘Are you
going to tell me?’
‘But looking for proof,’ Melusine uttered impatiently. "Whose house do you want, master?" said the man, touching his hat. "
"Trying to. 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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