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I believe one can disarm even Destiny. God knows what might not have / happened had that child been born in such surroundings as Clarissa / found herself before she came to me. You may be sure the poor little / mite would have been sorely in the way. God knows what might not have / happened.
But so far as I was concerned with Clarissa, it was welcome. It would / give her something to live for who had so little of her own. I was / prepared to do my best that it should not be ushered into a world which / shuddered at its coming.