If she kept on, would she make it
out of the door? Then what? He could come after her before she could reach the
secret passage. Be this
as it may, Jonathan remained the victor; and shortly afterwards,—at the price of
a third of his estate, it was whispered,—he procured Trenchard's liberation from
confinement. Every so often a wall of water, thin and jadecoloured, would rise up over the port bow, hesitate, and fall smacking amidships. 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. "
"No more!" cried Griffin, incredulously; "I should have thought you must have
made double that sum at least. They are very good
people, you know.
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