’ The door closed behind them both and Gerald was alone with Melusine. 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. "Do you think we are to be disturbed in this way? Make less noise, hussies, or I'll turn you out of the Lodge. I want you to understand clearly that I was indebted to the man in many small ways. . The leg and wing of a duck were disposed of by this gentleman in a twinkling; a brace of pigeons and a pound of steak followed with equal celerity; and he had just begun to make a fierce assault upon the eggs and ham.
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