‘I find this was excessively clever of Gérard. 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. Sheppard's weight had destroyed the equilibrium of the plank: it swerved, and slowly descended. “I must try the Directory. Suspicion was in his face. " Figg turned aside to hide the tears that started to his eyes,—for the stout prizefighter, with a man's courage, had a woman's heart,—and the procession again set forward. To vault over the pews was the work of a moment; and having gained the entry leading to the Red Room he passed through the first door; his progress being only impeded by the pile of broken stones, which he himself had raised. " "Murder him!" cried Trenchard shuddering. “Mike, that’s not even remotely funny. Shalford says—the accidental conquering the essential. “Let me think,” said Ann Veronica. "Get it over quickly," said Trenchard, in a whisper to the thief-taker. His inclinations prompted him most decidedly to take the vacant chair. “You are late,” she murmured. So appalling was the sight, that even the murderers—familiar as they were with scenes of slaughter,—looked aghast at it.
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