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It is also true that we found none of the Archaean biological objects in a condition to take outside as a whole. We did gather some minerals from a vast tumbled pile, including several of the greenish soapstone fragments whose odd five-pointed rounding and faint patterns of grouped dots caused so many doubtful comparisons; and some fossil bones, among which were the most typical of the curiously injured specimens.
Source: "At the Mountains of Madness" by H. P. Lovecraft
Context: a man is describing what he and his team did and did not collect at a destroyed campsite.
The way the narrator said "did gather" instead of "gathered" here make me feel a bit unsure about the tone of the sentence. Is this a way to emphasize how contrary this action is to the fact that they couldn't find any intact biological specimen to take home?
Or, to be more precise, should I read the sentence as "We did, however, gather some minerals [...]"
Source: "At the Mountains of Madness" by H. P. Lovecraft
Context: a man is describing what he and his team did and did not collect at a destroyed campsite.
The way the narrator said "did gather" instead of "gathered" here make me feel a bit unsure about the tone of the sentence. Is this a way to emphasize how contrary this action is to the fact that they couldn't find any intact biological specimen to take home?
Or, to be more precise, should I read the sentence as "We did, however, gather some minerals [...]"
