[word=□]
[word=my]
He was strongly bent to get me a woman of my own size , by whom I might propagate the breed : but I think I should rather have died than undergone the disgrace of leaving a posterity to be kept in cages , like tame canary-birds , and perhaps , in time , sold about the kingdom , to persons of quality , for curiosities . I had driven there in my troublesome Volkswagen bus with only fourteen dollars in my pocket . Montreal has changed my impressions of the world and my own sense of how I fit in it . As a result , I was unable to persuade my Japanese McKinsey colleagues to start at the beginning with productivity . That I should ever have meant more , you will allow to be impossible , when you understand that my affections have been long engaged elsewhere , and it will not be many weeks , I believe , before this engagement is fulfilled .