instruction:
You are given an English sentence with a blank, and you need to predict the missing word. After completing, the whole sentence should be gramatically correct and non-ambiguous.
question:
he had an uncomfortable feeling that the mysterious creatures were secretly laughing at him he may have ____ quite right in thinking so for he was an odd looking personage with an ungainly figure and long iron gray hair that touched his stooping shoulders
answer:
been


question:
and yet ____ manners showed the effects of a sort of education if not a complete one
answer:
his


question:
madame danglars therefore went to bed ____ a shadow of suspicion and began to muse over the recent events in proportion as her memory became clearer the occurrences of the evening were revealed in their true light what she had taken for confusion was a tumult
answer:

without