[Go to Leaf Image 340 for the opening portion of this leaf's transcription.]
deeper. If askance he eyed the
good looks, cheery health and frank
enjoyment of this young life in Billy
Budd, it was because these seemed to be happened
to go went were its the outward expressions of along with ^ a nature that as
Claggart magnetically felt, had
in its simplicity never willed malice or knew the reactionary pang in the
secret sessions of thought.

or felt unavailing remore. To Claggart, or experienced the ^ reacting ^ reactionary bite of the that serpent . in it.
To him, the spirit lodged within Billy,

and looking out from his welkin blue azure eyes
as from windows, that ^ ineffability it was which

[Go to Leaf Image 340 for the opening portion of this leaf's transcription.]
deeper. If askance he eyed the
good looks, cheery health and frank
enjoyment of this young life in Billy
Budd, it was because these seemed to be happened
to go went were its the outward expressions of along with ^ a nature that as
Claggart magnetically felt, had
in its simplicity never willed malice or knew the reactionary pang in the
secret sessions of thought.

or felt unavailing remore. To Claggart, or experienced the ^ reacting ^ reactionary bite of the that serpent . in it.
To him, the spirit lodged within Billy,

and looking out from his welkin blue azure eyes
as from windows, that ^ ineffability it was which

Transcribed by: John Bryant