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" Dern was never assaulted, which she credits to "mere luck.
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Percival believes he is cursed with the inability to take his own life, and his meeting Steven is meant to be. He pays Steven to kill him. Steven, scoffing at the idea, gives Percival a chance to reconsider, then shoots him in the chest. When Percival survives both this and another shooting from Steven, which leaves him blinded in one eye, Steven accepts it is more than mere luck.
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But Shine's mother and stepfather try to kill her by having one of her favorite tarts poisoned. By mere luck, a child that worked in the kitchens steals the tart, eats it and dies instead of Shine. This horrifies Shine and scares Chade, who decides to send her over to Fitz's home at Withywoods, believing she will be safe under Fitz's care. Shine presents herself as "Shun", changing her name because she feels "shunned" by everyone, having lost the sense of home when her grandparents died.
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Later in his career, commenting on his decision to study potatoes Salaman noted that he had "embarked on an enterprise which, after forty years, leaves more questions unsolved than were thought at that time to exist. Whether it was mere luck, or whether the potato and I were destined for life partnership, I do not know, but from that moment my course was set, and I became ever more involved in problems associated directly or indirectly with a plant with which I had no particular affinity, gustatory or romantic". Working in his private garden, he initially set out to cross two potato varieties and establish which traits were dominant and recessive in a similar manner to Gregor Mendel's work on peas, but he soon broadened into other areas. In 1908, he decided to include wild potatoes in his experiments and requested that Kew Gardens provide him with Solanum maglia.
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