sagaciously🔊

Who could forbear smiling, to see my charmer, like a farcical dean and chapter, choose what was before chosen for her; and sagaciously (as they go in form to prayers, that God would direct their choice) pondering upon the different proposals, as if she would make me believe, she has a mind for some other?

But if these suspicions were really his, he sagaciously refrained from verbally expressing them, however his actions might seem to hint them.

“Introduce me, now there’s a good fellow,” he said, / “If we happen to meet it together!” / And the Bellman, sagaciously nodding his head, / Said “That must depend on the weather.”