Read this passage from “Bartleby, the Scrivener”:
"Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. If the individual so resisted be of a not inhumane temper, and the resisting one perfectly harmless in his passivity, then, in the better moods of the former, he will endeavor charitably to construe to his imagination what proves impossible to be solved by his judgment. Even so, for the most part, I regarded Bartleby and his ways."

Read the passage from "Bartleby, the Scrivener" to answer this question.

In this passage, "[e]ven so" means:
Question 4 options:

in spite of this.

all things being equal.

however.

conversely.

in this manner.