Wood among them?" asked Jack, eagerly. 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. Then for the first time she was conscious of an unaccountable and terrifying sensation. Most of the tables were for those who smoked only and drank wine, but there were a few spread with tablecloths and laid for dinner.
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