Complex sentence: She brought him a fortune, as well as a happy-though childless-marriage (preceded by a phrenological check for compatibility); a few years later he retired from work as a lawyer, in comfortable circumstances.
Split into simpler sentences: She brought him a fortune, as well as a happy-though childless-marriage (preceded by a phrenological check for compatibility). A few years later, he retired from work as a lawyer, in comfortable circumstances.