only
producing
numbness
and
insensibility
to pain –
otherwise
it would
often be
painful to
bear –
without
affecting
the
consciousness.
I hardly
ever
failed,
when I
rambled
through
the
village,
to see a
row of
such
worthies,
either
sitting on
a ladder
sunning
themselves,
with their
bodies
inclined
forward
and their
eyes
glancing
along the
line this
way and
that, from
time to
time, with
a
voluptuous
expression,
or else
leaning
