Hints for Lovers by Arnold Haultain
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page 173 of 191 (90%)
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deed called the called the "solemnization of matrimony", is a riddle
difficult of solution; and as to how much one may claim on the strength of one or other of these indentures, that is a more difficult problem still. In no amatorial contract, probably, is it possible to include or to enumerate all the hereditaments, messuages, or appurtenances, involved. Certainly How great so ever the community of interest, M and N remain for ever M and N. Is there not always something in the "eternal feminine" which cannot quite coalesce with the ephemeral masculine? Probably, Trust your wife with your purse, and seven times out of ten it will grow heavy. * * * Many a woman, by man, is accepted at her face value. Many a man, by woman, is taken on trust. It is difficult to tell whether More bad debts are contracted by giving credit than by taking at face value. For The promissory note of marriage is undated and unendorsed. But Children act as collateral security. |
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