Sentence:  [“]You had another of your vacillating consultations with your councillors. Fine advisers.” With infinite scorn, “A herd of <WSD>palsied</WSD> purblind idiots hugging their sterile profits close to their sunken chests in the face of my father's displeasure.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Trembling as if afflicted with palsy.