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Yes, the printer got sick. (Or at least the speaker asserts that he in fact got sick.)Would is used here in the sense 'be willing, consent', with overtones of the sense 'persist (in a particular action...
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From The Heart of a Broken Story:I’m a good printer’s assistant, but that’s all I am. One day the printer got sick, and I had to take his place. What a mess I made of things, Miss Lester. No one would...
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