Not P but Moby-Dick (91)

[Mike Jing]

>From Chapter 112:

Belated, and not innocently, one bitter winter’s midnight, on the road
running between two country towns, the blacksmith half-stupidly felt the
deadly numbness stealing over him, and sought refuge in a leaning,
dilapidated barn. The issue was, the loss of the extremities of both feet.
Out of this revelation, part by part, at last came out the four acts of the
gladness, and the one long, and as yet uncatastrophied fifth act of the
grief of his life’s drama.

>From the next paragraph, it seems the blacksmith was ruined by alcoholism.
So here "not innocently" implies he was drunk, and "half-stupidly" means he
was in a half-stupor, is that correct?