Sentence:  What a strange thing, I mused, was this smoking, that takes a man suddenly, be he in the court, the camp, or the grove, grips him like an Afreet, and whirls him off to do its imperious behests! Would it be <WSD>even so</WSD> with myself, I wondered, in those unknown grown-up years to come? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  In exactly such a manner (as said or surmised); of exactly such a nature.