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Miles reflected during some moments, then said to himself, “Yes, that is the thing to do--by any other means it were impossible to get at it--and certes, this hour’s experience has taught me ’twould be most wearing and inconvenient to continue it as it is. Yes, I will propose it; ’twas a happy accident that I did not throw the chance away.” Then he dropped upon one knee and said--