And yet Billy was a bit uncertain
whether indeed it were he— the yonder young chap
fellow about his own age chatting and
laughing in free-hearted way, leaning
against a gun; a genial young fellow
enough to look at, and something of
a rattle-brain, to all appearance.
Rather chubby too for a sailor even
an afterguardsman. In short the last
man in the world, one would think,
to be overburthened with thoughts, especially
those perilous thoughts that must needs
belong to a conspirator in any serious
project, or even to the confident underling of one. such a conspirator.
whether indeed it were he— the yonder young chap
fellow about his own age chatting and
laughing in free-hearted way, leaning
against a gun; a genial young fellow
enough to look at, and something of
a rattle-brain, to all appearance.
Rather chubby too for a sailor even
an afterguardsman. In short the last
man in the world, one would think,
to be overburthened with thoughts, especially
those perilous thoughts that must needs
belong to a conspirator in any serious
project, or even to the confident underling of one. such a conspirator.
And yet Billy was a bit uncertain
whether indeed it were he— the yonder young chap
fellow about his own age chatting and
laughing in free-hearted way, leaning
against a gun; a genial young fellow
enough to look at, and something of
a rattle-brain, to all appearance.
Rather chubby too for a sailor even
an afterguardsman. In short the last
man in the world, one would think,
to be overburthened with thoughts, especially
those perilous thoughts that must needs
belong to a conspirator in any serious
project, or even to the confident underling of one. such a conspirator.
whether indeed it were he— the yonder young chap
fellow about his own age chatting and
laughing in free-hearted way, leaning
against a gun; a genial young fellow
enough to look at, and something of
a rattle-brain, to all appearance.
Rather chubby too for a sailor even
an afterguardsman. In short the last
man in the world, one would think,
to be overburthened with thoughts, especially
those perilous thoughts that must needs
belong to a conspirator in any serious
project, or even to the confident underling of one. such a conspirator.
Transcribed by: John Bryant