Then there was Tom Jarrot, the hackney-coachman, who was pitched off the box against yonder curbstone, and broke his leg. Melusine sighed with relief and set to work by the light of the lantern. She found herself anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essays and then through various scientific quarterlies for his research papers. It was an awful moment—so awful, that every other feeling except deep interest in the scene seemed suspended. ‘You have no idea how dull the militia is compared to the Army. I don’t want to Bowdlerize Shakespeare. It was only a few months ago that I told you you must come to London, and you only laughed at me. Austin departed, and presently afterwards returned with the two subordinate officers, each of whom wore a leathern apron round his waist, and carried a large hammer. 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.
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