George Seten, or, The Chip Boy of the Dry Dock

"As I entered, I beheld an object which once boasted of being called a woman, but which was so deformed by dissipation, that it would puzzle any quick-sighted man with the best of optics, aided even by the telescope (which is generally seen by the hospital wall), to tell what it was, lying at full length upon the bed; beside her was seated a man, in the act of drinking something from a bottle. I paused upon the door-step, and seizing the boy by the arm, I held him motionless, while I (...)"

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