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: and here she ____ now knitting and the table behind her was laid for supper missus rachel before she had fairly closed the door

Answer: sat


Question: how are all your folks something that for lack of any other name might be called friendship existed and always had existed between marilla cuthbert and missus rachel in ____ of or perhaps because of their dissimilarity marilla was a tall

Answer: spite


Question: at nine o'clock next morning she arose and without ringing for her maid or giving the least sign of her activity she dressed herself in the same simple style as on the previous night then running down stairs ____ left the hotel walked to the rue de provence

Answer:
she