Everything before the “but” is meant to be ignored by the speaker; and everything after the “but” should be ignored by the listener.
You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.
There were three things prefigured and promised by the gifts in the cave of Bethlehem concerning the Child who received…
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while…