Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

“But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.”

“It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know tha…”

“I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me…”

“In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up”