He drinks to dull the pain.

Blessed are they who with forethought rightly live; for they have forebought a fortunate rebirth.

Indeed an analysis in which the semantics of plesionymy (near but peculiar synonymy) can be traced through the text (see Stockwell 2000) serves only to increase the appreciation of the poetic mechanics of paranoia and disturbance in the text.

“You little fool!” he said half-angrily, half-gibingly; and thereafter they rode in silence - she too mortified with shame and anger to venture upon words.