Given the task definition and input, reply with output. 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.

the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky white bloom hummed over by a myriad of bees thomas lynde a meek ____ man whom avonlea people called rachel lynde's husband was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn
little