"I dare say you noticed it then ?" "Not as you did.

I wish I had noticed it more," was his answer.

"Poor little White One!" That led us into our talk about the White People.

He said he did not think he was exactly an observant person in some respects.

Remembering his books, which seemed to me the work of a man who saw and understood everything in the world, I could not comprehend his thinking that, and I told him so.