Some one had once, in his hearing, called him a prig. ”
“Don’t imperil my reputation before I am established,” she answered, smiling. People were passing in the
street below. “And by what right do you do anything of the sort?”
“No right at all,” he admitted. ”
“You did,” Anna exclaimed. 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. She dismissed the
whole subject with a little shrug of the shoulders. "
"Not at fisticuffs, perhaps," interrupted Jack, fiercely; "but I've my knife. ‘I agree with you. He might solve the
riddle. And, in applying
the term to his friend, Thames meant to pay him a high compliment.
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