for your old age, and, until lately, the courts held you could collect
that surplus, if your contract were not completed to the end of your
existence. Thus, in marrying, you are following the wise ordinance of
God. You are choosing a blooming, healthy young woman while you are
yourself fresh enough to attract her love and hold it. You are living as
a married man while you might, probably, live with more strictly selfish
personal comfort up to thirty-five as a single man; but you are,