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Ghella
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Read the excerpt from “A Century Ride.” “Great Scott!” he stammered, “what’s the matter? Surely ’tisn’t Mrs. Dunlop?” and he gap

ed at the dusty little lady, who sat on the door-step, and the wheel which lay on the roadway. “I’m choking with thirst,” said Maude. “Get me a drink of water, and I’ll tell you,” and the Doctor bounced in for a dipper, and out to the pump for the required beverage. “Don’t take much,” he stammered incoherently. “I’ve put a drop of whiskey in it. Now tell me, in the name of Heaven, what sent you riding across the country in this fashion?” Which best explains the context clues for and the correct meaning of “incoherently”?
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