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. “Well anyhow—I don’t see the force of your objection,
you know. My son went down after his death. I hope to see the day, when not Southwark alone, but London itself
shall become one Mint,—when all men shall be debtors, and none creditors,—
when imprisonment for debt shall be utterly abolished,—- when highwayrobbery shall be accounted a pleasant pastime, and forgery an accomplishment,
—when Tyburn and its gibbets shall be overthrown,—capital punishments
discontinued,—Newgate, Ludgate, the Gatehouse, and the Compters razed to the
ground,—Bridewell and Clerkenwell destroyed,—the Fleet, the King's Bench,
and the Marshalsea remembered only by name! But, in the mean time, as that
day may possibly be farther off than I anticipate, we are bound to make the most
of the present. They had shared almost seventy five
wonderful years there in nearly utter seclusion before it
came time to move on. “Admirably, thank you,” Anna answered. ‘I am not in
the least in a rage. The Storm. ’
The lashes fluttered demurely. ”
Capes suddenly abandoned his attitude of meditative restraint.
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