The perspiration in which he was bathed was cooling and the sun which burnt his back, his head and his arm – bare to the elbow – added to his strength and perseverance in his task, and those unconscious intervals when it became possible not to think of what he was doing recurred more and more often.
Il sudore che lo inondava lo rinfrescava, e il sole che gli bruciava la schiena, la testa e il braccio dalla manica rimboccata fino al gomito, dava vigore e tenacia al lavoro; e sempre più spesso gli capitavano quei tali momenti di incoscienza, in cui si può non pensare a quello che si fa.