They are the only happy
women in the Orient. 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. ’
‘Even that he is, one must be practical. Are you going to have any apple-tart,
Stanley? The apple-tart’s been very good lately—very good!”
Part 7
At the end of dinner that evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!”
Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation;
“If there is anything you want to say to me,” he said, “you must say it in the
study. If it were but
the question of his reason for marrying her, the solution would have been simple. “It’s like this,” he said, and dragged a stool beside her and sat down with his
elbow four inches from hers and made a sketch. By and by he ventured to peer into this window. She was
always the last person to exit after the crowds had
stampeded, trailing slowly behind them like dust.
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