Pausing, he was about to ejaculate
something hasty at the sailor, but
checked himself, and pointing down to
to the streaming soup, playfully tapped
him from behind with his rattan,
equivocally saying in a low musical voice peculiar to him at times "Handsomely done, my lad!
And handsome is as handsome did it too does
too !" And with that passed on. Not
noted by Billy as not coming
within his view was the involuntary
smile, or rather grimace, that
accompanied Claggart's the equivocal words. Aridly it
drew down and distored the thin corners of his
shapely -curved mouth. But everybody
taking his remark as intended
something hasty at the sailor, but
checked himself, and pointing down to
to the streaming soup, playfully tapped
him from behind with his rattan,
equivocally saying in a low musical voice peculiar to him at times "Handsomely done, my lad!
And handsome is as handsome did it too does
too !" And with that passed on. Not
noted by Billy as not coming
within his view was the involuntary
smile, or rather grimace, that
accompanied Claggart's the equivocal words. Aridly it
drew down and distored the thin corners of his
shapely -curved mouth. But everybody
taking his remark as intended
Pausing, he was about to ejaculate
something hasty at the sailor, but
checked himself, and pointing down to
to the streaming soup, playfully tapped
him from behind with his rattan,
equivocally saying in a low musical voice peculiar to him at times "Handsomely done, my lad!
And handsome is as handsome did it too does
too !" And with that passed on. Not
noted by Billy as not coming
within his view was the involuntary
smile, or rather grimace, that
accompanied Claggart's the equivocal words. Aridly it
drew down and distored the thin corners of his
shapely -curved mouth. But everybody
taking his remark as intended
something hasty at the sailor, but
checked himself, and pointing down to
to the streaming soup, playfully tapped
him from behind with his rattan,
equivocally saying in a low musical voice peculiar to him at times "Handsomely done, my lad!
And handsome is as handsome did it too does
too !" And with that passed on. Not
noted by Billy as not coming
within his view was the involuntary
smile, or rather grimace, that
accompanied Claggart's the equivocal words. Aridly it
drew down and distored the thin corners of his
shapely -curved mouth. But everybody
taking his remark as intended
Transcribed by: John Bryant