all the same it was then that
Hi, there
I was reading a book and I came across this:
"This is death in my hand, this is ruin in my breast pocket, where I keep my reading glasses. At such times he was as forgetful of her as he was of his suspenders and his Methodism, but all the same it was then that she loved him best, as a soul unaccompanied, like her own"
I would like to know if you could tell me what "but all the same it was then that" mean here
Thank you
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IT refers to the past. If you like "It was then that she" would be the same as saying "it was in that moment, that she" or perhaps "it was at that time, that she"
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but is "it was then that" referring to the present or the past?
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"But all the same, it was then that she loved him best, as a soul unaccompanied, like her own."
Let's break it down.
"...But all the same..." is just something to make it sound fancy is what I've learned from all the reading that I do. It holds little to no meaning, in my opinion.
"...It was then that she loved him best..." means that she loved the man the most at the time in which the sentence refers to.
"...As a soul unaccompanied, like her own..." is the time that sentence above refers to.
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