TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: they were good you know the asylum people but there is so little scope for the imagination in an asylum ____ just in the other orphans it was pretty interesting to imagine things about them

SOLUTION: only

PROBLEM: you ____ excuse this poor fellow madame

SOLUTION: will

PROBLEM: who after being momentarily crushed under the weight of the blow which had struck her had gone to seek her usual adviser lucien debray the baroness had looked forward to this marriage as a means of ridding her of a guardianship which over a girl ____ eugenie's character

SOLUTION:
of