The dazzling scene around him affords no rest to his eye, no object to divert his attention from his own agonising sensations.

When he arises from sleep half his body seems dead till quickened into feeling by the irritation of his sores.

But fortunately for him no evil makes an impression so evanescent as pain.

It cannot be wholly banished nor recalled by the force of reality by any act of the mind, either to affect our determinations or to sympathise with another.

The traveller soon forgets his sufferings and at every future journey their recurrence is attended with diminished acuteness.
It was not before the 10th or 12th of April that the return of the swans, geese, and ducks gave certain indications of the advance of spring.