59 1 195 205 This feeling would not perhaps have
so prevailed with him the Commander were
it not that upon a one former ^ prior occasion
the official patriotic zeal of officially evinced by
Claggart had ^ somewhat irritated the former's his instinctive
sense him as appearing ^ somewhat rather supersenseable
and strained. Besides Furthermore , something even
in the official's 14
self-possessed^ unexceptionable ^ and decorous ^ and somewhat ostentatious manner in making his
specifications strangely ^ & painfully reminded him 14
his critic the Captain Vere of a bandsman, a
perjured perjurous witness in a capital case
before a court-martial ^ ashore of which
when a lieutenant he ^ Captain Vere had been a
member.
59 1 195 205 This feeling would not perhaps have
so prevailed with him the Commander were
it not that upon a one former ^ prior occasion
the official patriotic zeal of officially evinced by
Claggart had ^ somewhat irritated the former's his instinctive
sense him as appearing ^ somewhat rather supersenseable
and strained. Besides Furthermore , something even
in the official's 14
self-possessed^ unexceptionable ^ and decorous ^ and somewhat ostentatious manner in making his
specifications strangely ^ & painfully reminded him 14
his critic the Captain Vere of a bandsman, a
perjured perjurous witness in a capital case
before a court-martial ^ ashore of which
when a lieutenant he ^ Captain Vere had been a
member.

Transcribed by: John Bryant