How can I paraphrase this paragraph from "The Necklace"?"She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born as if by an accident of fate into a...

Mademoiselle Mathilde Loisel was fair of face and lovely
of disposition, just the type of girl who should have been the belle of the ball, the
choice of all the most agreeable young bachelors. Alas, however - cruel fate intervened
and caused her to be born the daughter of a head clerk, one of many clerks in the
family. Because of her station in life as the daughter in a poor struggling family with
no dowry to her name, she had no hope of ever meeting, knowing, loving, and marrying
some famous, handsome and rich gentleman who would carry her off to live with him
forever. Her only possibility lay in accepting the marriage arranged by her parents to a
man of their choosing - an assistant clerk who hoped someday to become the head clerk,
as was her father.