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. The effort to maintain her self-control was almost superhuman. ‘Ah, there is the little menace itself,’ he drawled, recovering some of his own sangfroid. . She was suddenly grave. But I can give it its name now. There he sat as before, with the heavy fetters on his limbs, and beside him sat his three companions, who had since expiated their offences on the gibbet. Jane was a smoldering auburn-haired Irish beauty who seldom spoke to anyone.
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