48 168 cheerfully tarrying would follow the unconscious sailor handsome good-fellow with
cheerful tarrying young cheerful sea- Hyperion
a settled meditative and melancholly melancholy
expression, the his dark hazel eye eyes mysteriously strangely
suffused with incipient feverish tears.
Then would Claggart look like the
man of sorrows. Yes, and ^ And And, yes ^ sometimes the
melancholly melancholy look expression ^ would have in ^ it a
touch of soft yearning and softness , as if
he ^ Claggart could even have loved Billy but
for fate & ban. . ^ forbidding. It was But this was an evanescence , and
quickly repented of, as it were replaced by an immitigable look
pinching and dwarfing shrinking & pinching & shrivlling the whole
intellectual head of the man as by incantation into
the semblance of a wrinkled walnut.
Various were these invountary caprices. / of passion
48 168 cheerfully tarrying would follow the unconscious sailor handsome good-fellow with
cheerful tarrying young cheerful sea- Hyperion
a settled meditative and melancholly melancholy
expression, the his dark hazel eye eyes mysteriously strangely
suffused with incipient feverish tears.
Then would Claggart look like the
man of sorrows. Yes, and ^ And And, yes ^ sometimes the
melancholly melancholy look expression ^ would have in ^ it a
touch of soft yearning and softness , as if
he ^ Claggart could even have loved Billy but
for fate & ban. . ^ forbidding. It was But this was an evanescence , and
quickly repented of, as it were replaced by an immitigable look
pinching and dwarfing shrinking & pinching & shrivlling the whole
intellectual head of the man as by incantation into
the semblance of a wrinkled walnut.
Various were these invountary caprices. / of passion

Transcribed by: John Bryant