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sinister thought edged in. ‘I have the means to compel
you. She looked more than her sixty odd years, in spite of a still
lush head of black hair, streaked with a little grey, which was visible under her
cap and of immediate interest to Gerald. ‘You wish to tell me something? Parbleu, I have
nearly forgot once more. ’
‘Parbleu,’ exclaimed the girl, jumping up in some dudgeon. 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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