Điền từ thích hợp vào chỗ chấm

I am an old lawyer and I have three men working for me My business continued to grow and I decided to take one more man to help write legal papers I (1) _ a great many people in my life, but the man who (2) _ my advertisement was the strangest person I (3) _ of or met He stood outside my office and (4) _ for me (5) _ He was a small man, quiet and (6) _ in a clean but old suit I asked him his name It was Bottlebie At first Bottlebie almost worked himself too hard (7) the legal papers I gave him He worked through the day by sunlight and into the night by candlelight I was happy with his work but not happy with the way he worked He was too quiet but he worked well like a machine, never (8) _, or speaking One day, I asked Bottlebie (9) _ to my office to study a legal paper with me Without (10) _ from his chair, Bottlebie said “I do not want to” I sat for a short time, too surprised (11) _ And I became (12) _ “You do not want to? What do you mean?”