human
If she should sometime meet me, and know that I was, am, and have been unmarried, that meanwhile we have both become old and gray,--can one think of anything more sad? It is enough to make the heart cease beating! But suppose, too, that to-morrow she finds out that she has been deceived: she has once written, 'I was mistaken,' and cannot, as a true woman, write it again, unless she first heard from me, and learned how I longed--and so I am cut off from her, as if I lived in the moon. More, more! for I can meet her upon the street and touch her arm without surmising it. It is insupportable! Our time has mail, steamboats, railroads, telegraphs: to me these do not exist; for of what use are they altogether, when one knows not where to search.
gpt
Fritz Bagger is not married. --No: that was too plain.--
human
F. B. is not married.