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 door opened. Solomon Smith, chapmen, (or what in modern vulgar parlance would be termed bagmen) travelling to procure orders for the house of an eminent cloth manufacturer in Manchester. "What are you waiting for?" asked Jack, impatiently. “You must arrest me!” she gasped, breathlessly, insisting insanely on a point already carried; “you shall!” The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a refuge from unnamable disgraces. ’ ‘Pray don’t,’ begged Mrs Sindlesham, one eye on the general’s embattled features. And yet he knew that his skill was equal to that of any fashionable practitioner in Hong-Kong. "A fall against Newgate is accounted a sign of death by the halter," replied Wild, with ill-disguised malignity. " "Not your only chance, Thames," returned Jack, in the same undertone; "but your best. You are restless, aggressive, critical with all the crude unthinking criticism of youth.
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