observingly

Updated: May 15, 2025

Here, as in America, he looked about him observingly and pondered the meaning of what he saw. But he understood it not, and went hither and thither like a man in a dream. In his Indian home he had studied Western civilisation from the books which tell of its mighty works and its religion; and, so studied, it had seemed to him an intelligible thing.

L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks - Mad Shepherds: and Other Human Studies