explanatory-wise

Updated: May 20, 2025

For a moment I scarcely recognized him. A new suit of fashionably-cut clothes had changed him, without, however, entirely concealing his rustic angularity of figure and outline. He even affected a fashionable dilettante air, but so mildly and so innocently that it was not offensive. "You see," he began, explanatory-wise, "I've just found out the way to do it.

Bret Harte - Drift from Two Shores