shootingstar
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. . .
Well, I was in for it - in for Pinkerton, in for the portrait, in for the type-written lecture. One promise I extorted - that I was never again to be committed in ignorance. Even for that, when I saw how its extortion puzzled and depressed the Irrepressible (the nickname of Pinkerton), my soul repented me, and in all else I suffered myself to be led uncomplaining at his chariot-wheels.
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(The Wrecker by R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, Chapter vi)
How do you interpret was to there? Do you take it to be indicative or subjunctive?
Thank you.
Well, I was in for it - in for Pinkerton, in for the portrait, in for the type-written lecture. One promise I extorted - that I was never again to be committed in ignorance. Even for that, when I saw how its extortion puzzled and depressed the Irrepressible (the nickname of Pinkerton), my soul repented me, and in all else I suffered myself to be led uncomplaining at his chariot-wheels.
. . .
(The Wrecker by R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, Chapter vi)
How do you interpret was to there? Do you take it to be indicative or subjunctive?
Thank you.