7 87 and events of the world the period to drop cite some ^ historic
the ancients, and character or incident allusion to equally from indifferently from Plutarch say, or Livy,
of antiquity as freely quite as freely as
unmindful of the circumstance that
to his bluff company such ^ remote allusions
however pertinent they might ^ really be
were altogether too alien to men whose reading was mainly confined to the journals. and remote. But
considerateness in such matters is not
easy to minds natures constituted like Captain
Vere's. Their honesty prescribes to
them ^ directness, sometimes a far-reaching directness like
that of a migratory fowl in its that
in its flight takes no note ^ never heeds when
it crosses a frontier.
It may help to show how
he himself regarded his "little
weakness" as some of his friends
7 87 and events of the world the period to drop cite some ^ historic
the ancients, and character or incident allusion to equally from indifferently from Plutarch say, or Livy,
of antiquity as freely quite as freely as
unmindful of the circumstance that
to his bluff company such ^ remote allusions
however pertinent they might ^ really be
were altogether too alien to men whose reading was mainly confined to the journals. and remote. But
considerateness in such matters is not
easy to minds natures constituted like Captain
Vere's. Their honesty prescribes to
them ^ directness, sometimes a far-reaching directness like
that of a migratory fowl in its that
in its flight takes no note ^ never heeds when
it crosses a frontier.
It may help to show how
he himself regarded his "little
weakness" as some of his friends

Transcribed by: John Bryant