An old clerk at Tellson's now gives Jerry an order to go the Court, Old Bailey, where he will be let in through the aid of Mr. Lorry. He will there await his pleasure. They are trying a man for treason today. The punishment for treason is "quartering," in which a partially hanged man is literally split open in a gruesome and barbarous manner and then quartered and decapitated. The prisoner involved is a noble gentleman.....
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