She produced a handkerchief, and with one sweep of this and a simultaneous gulp had abolished her fit of weeping. “Sir John,” her aunt repeated, with thin emphasis, “is coming to see your sister. 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. Come close to me, and let me hold your hand, dear. As sure as he is now living, I'll pay him a visit in the Old Bailey before morning. And mind, your life,—more than your life—hangs upon your choice.
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