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"God keep you from the she-wolf, and from your heart's deep desire!"
The words were in my ears again as we went flying on toward the narrows -- with the reflection of the flame in the light-house making a broad bright path for us, and the flame itself rising high before us against the cloud-rack like a ball of fire. But God was not with me then, and I gave those warning words no heed. I was drunk with the gladness that came to me when Magali made her choice between us; and all that I thought was that even if we did go down together, out there in the Gulf of Fos, I still would be keeping her from Jan and holding her for my own. That there might be any other ending for us never crossed my mind.