Sentence:  But that, alas! is impossible. Hearken to the nature of the fix in which I find myself, and say if you ever heard of a worse. Under ordinary circumstances, if one outruns the usual allowance of space, one has but to say at the foot of the paper, "To be continued", and all is healed. Any paper may be adjourned from month to month,—true, but not from volume to volume; and, unhappily for me, this very week's number, in which I am now writing, closes a volume. The several monthly divisions of the journal may <WSD>inosculate</WSD>, but not the several volumes. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To intercommunicate; to interjoin.