F. 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. Drawing a pistol, and unclosing his lantern with the quickness of
thought, he then burst through an open trap-door into a small loft. But he was so feeble, that it seemed scarcely possible he
could offer any effectual resistance in case of an attack. "It was the story of a man, so to speak, who
had left his vitals in his native land and wandered strange paths emptily. You will leave me utterly
distraught. ”
She shook her head. "Nothing more than this," answered Kneebone,—"that after the failure of his
projects, and the downfall of his party, he retired to his seat, Ashton Hall, near
Manchester, and has remained there ever since, entirely secluded from the
world.
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