’ ‘Me, miss?’ uttered Mrs Ibstock doubtfully. ’ ‘Yes, a pretty theory, Lucy,’ Gerald said evenly, ‘but for one thing. ’ Taking the chair she had indicated with a careless wave of one stiff-fingered hand, Gerald felt hope burgeoning. It may here be mentioned that this gate, destined to bequeath its name—a name, which has since acquired a terrible significance,—to every successive structure erected upon its site, was granted, in 1400, by charter by Henry the Sixth to the citizens of London, in return for their royal services, and thenceforth became the common jail to that city and the county of Middlesex. To-morrow, we'll go to the Fleet and get spliced. His initial nervousness had already abated, and it took some valour to allow himself to become embroiled in Melusine’s crazy schemes. “I will make all things possible. 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. Sheppard, in a voice of agony. I am very, very sorry, but you must listen to me.
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