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.
Обливавший его пот прохлаждал его, а солнце, жегшее спину, голову и засученную по локоть руку, придавало крепость и упорство в работе; и чаще и чаще приходили те минуты бессознательного состояния, когда можно было не думать о том, что делаешь.