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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. Her fingers found the lump she sought and, with a little effort, she dragged out the black-wrapped foil. With a little sigh of happiness she accepted this new thing. I wonder why on earth the curtains are drawn.

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