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: they seem contented enough but then i suppose they're used to it a body can get used to anything even to being hanged as the irishman ____ with this missus rachel stepped out of the lane into the backyard of green gables very green and neat and precise was that yard

Answer: said


Question: the five thirty train has been in and gone half an hour ago answered that brisk official but there was a passenger dropped off for you a little girl she's sitting out there on the shingles i asked her to go into ____ ladies waiting room but she informed me gravely that she preferred to stay outside

Answer: the


Question: he detested the way they had of sidling past him timidly with sidewise glances as if they expected him to gobble them up at a mouthful if they ventured to say a word that was the avonlea type of well ____ little girl but this freckled witch was very different

Answer:
bred