I want to know the main clause of this sentence. For the truth was that or That was for the truth or
For the truth was, as Mulcahy had to acknowledge， pacing up and down his small office，that in spite of all the evidence he had been given of the president's unremitting hatred, he found himself hurt by the letter---wounded，to be honest，not only in his self-esteem but in some tenderer place, in that sense of contract between people that transcends personal animosities and factional differences, that holds the individual distinct from the deed and maintains even in the fieriest opposition the dream of final agreement and concord.This sentence confused me mostly is the "For" (For the truth was), why just simplely to say :the truth was that , or that....was the truth.

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I want to know the main clause of this sentence. For the truth was that or That was for the truth or
For the truth was, as Mulcahy had to acknowledge， pacing up and down his small office，that in spite of all the evidence he had been given of the president's unremitting hatred, he found himself hurt by the letter---wounded，to be honest，not only in his self-esteem but in some tenderer place, in  that sense of contract between people that transcends personal animosities and factional differences, that holds the individual distinct from the deed and maintains even in the fieriest opposition the dream of final agreement and concord.This sentence confused me mostly is the  "For" (For the truth was), why just simplely to say :the truth was that , or that....was the truth.

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The main clause is "he found himself hurt by the letter".  the rest is all description

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