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Item 4
Read the excerpt from "The Necklace."
She was one of those pretty and charming young girls who sometimes are born, as if by a mistake of destiny, into a family of clerks.
What does the phrase "a mistake of destiny" imply about Mathilde?
She was mistakenly adopted into the wrong family.
She was born to a family and financial circumstances to which she does not seem to fit.
Those who believed Mathilde to be pretty and charming were mistaken.
Mathilde comes to believe it was a mistake to borrow the necklace.