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And yet in this terrible emergency she was powerless . The girl was allowed to see the man , and declared almost at once that she would transfer herself from her mother 's keeping to the keeping of this wicked one ! She was transferred , and the mother had been left alone . Then came the blow , -- very quickly , the blow which , as she now told herself morning , noon , and night , was no worse than she had expected . Another woman claimed the man as her husband , and so claimed him that the world all around her had declared that the claim would be made good . And the man himself had owned enough to make him unfit , -- as she thought , -- to have the custody of any honest woman . Then she acknowledged to herself the full weight of the misfortune that had fallen upon them , -- the misfortune which never would have fallen upon them had they listened to her counsel , -- and she had immediately put her shoulders to the wheel with the object of rescuing her child from the perils , from the sin , from the degradation of her position .