The fugitive-act did not affect a foreign country which Virginia claimed to be and that she must reckon it one of the infelicitous of her position that insofar at least she was taken at her word
This is a given example when I looked up "insofar" in a dict app. I don't know what exactly the origin is, since it doesn't matter anyway, I guess. The bolded part are those I find hardly comprehensible. Please help me restate the whole sentence into that I can readily understand.
With respect to the source: I'm sorry I really dont know, all that I can tell is that it is an randomly given example from an app"English dictionary--livio" when I searched word "insofar".
If someone does know about it, that would be very nice of you to help me edit and add the source to it as a matter of convenience.
m afraid I cannot ,because the sentence here is just a randomly given example from "English dictionary-offline",which dosen
t even tell more than a simple sentence without any title or source of original quotation, and I just came across this one a little bit perplexing when I searched word "insofar",thus I came to ask for that.