This unparalleled young person compelled me to take my engagement almost seriously.

If I shot forth a jest, it struck against a virtue and fell blunted to the earth.

Indeed, even now I am sorry I can't marry Eleanor.

But marriage is out of the question.
I have been told by the highest medical authorities that I may manage to wander in the flesh about this planet for another six months.

After that I shall have to do what wandering I yearn for through the medium of my ghost.