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
self-possessed unexceptionable and decorous and somewhat ostentatious manner in making his
specifications strangely & painfully reminded him
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. 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
self-possessed unexceptionable and decorous and somewhat ostentatious manner in making his
specifications strangely & painfully reminded him
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. This feeling would not perhaps have
Transcribed by: John Bryant