Status Updates From The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

“I had brought coin to pay for this provender myself, not with church funds, but the butcher insisted it be his tithe, which I take to mean he’s paying ahead, as it were, for some sin he can see coming, that he can now enter into with less guilt, as he’s already been shriven, as it were.”

this sentence, as it were, is the longest i’ve ever read in my life