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.
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Question: with so much care that his absence was half excused in the eyes of the poor woman at twenty minutes of twelve madame danglars tired of waiting returned home women of a certain grade are like ____ grisettes in one respect they seldom return home after twelve o'clock

Answer: prosperous


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

Answer: his


Question: or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom the air was sweet with the breath of many apple orchards and the meadows ____ away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple while the little birds sang as if it were the one day of summer in all the year

Answer:
sloped