A few bricks, dislodged probably by his last descent, came clattering down the chimney, and as it was perfectly dark, gave him the notion that some one was endeavouring to force an entrance into the room. “It makes one feel quite awkward to mention such a thing, but after all I think that it is best for both parties. But shortly this movement ceased. 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. I was certain of it. He used to live in a boarding-house in Russell Square. You know that, and I know that, though we might be put to it to find a reason why.
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