Seamstress, or the White Slave of England

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Virginia awakes with a subdued cry upon her lip - and she starts up in a species of consternation. The effect of the dream is still upon her;-and she' cannot immediately comprehend where she is. But in a very few moments her ideas settle down into their proper departments; - and she becomes pain fully and poignantly alive to the fact that in pro portion as the garden of her dream was warm, glowing, and delicious, so is the garret of her reality chill, wretched, and cheerless.