” Annabel rose and followed her sister from the room. “He is not—I don’t like him. She drew up a chair and sat down, putting her palm on the damp, cold forehead. Its smooth surface soothed her nerves. Grandmothers and grandfathers and uncles and aunts … to love and to coddle lonely little girls. At the corner of Liquorpond Street stood the old Hampstead coach-office; and, on the night in question, a knot of hostlers, waggoners, drivers, and stable-boys was collected in the yard. 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. She had to resist an impulse of sheer terror, to run out after them and give in. She could stow away, go to a place where there were no people to eat and end her life. If only for the sake of her argument with her home, she wanted success. She smiled and started for the stairs without reply. I see that compromise is more necessary to life than I ignorantly supposed it to be, and I have been trying to get Lord Morley’s book on that subject, but it does not appear to be available in the prison library, and the chaplain seems to regard him as an undesirable writer. The ruffled chemise-front under the wide lapels of her waistcoat and jacket no longer quivered, and her pose, with the full cloth petticoat spreading about her, was relaxed.
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