You are given an unfinished English sentence, and you need to predict the rest of it.
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Question: matthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his then and there he decided what to do he could not tell this child with the glowing eyes that

Answer: there had been a mistake he would take her home and let marilla do that she couldn't be left at bright river anyhow

Question: he was the shyest man alive and hated to have to go among strangers or to any place where he might have to talk matthew dressed up with a white collar and driving in a buggy was something that didn't happen

Answer: often missus rachel ponder as she might could make nothing of it

Question: had it been any other man in avonlea missus rachel deftly putting this

Answer:
and that together might have given a pretty good guess as to both questions but matthew so rarely went from home that it must be something pressing and unusual which was taking him