201 211 Brittanic Magesty's Majesty's navy a capital
investment at small outlay . or none at all.
After a brief pause during
which the reminiscences abovementioned
passed vividly through his mind
and he weighed the import of Claggart's
last suggestion conveyed in the
phrase "pitfal under the clover," 20
and the more he weighed it the less
reliance he felt in the informer's
good faith, suddenly he turned
upon him and in a low voice : "Do you come to me,
master-at-arms with so foggy
a tale? Let the rest go. But , as to
Budd, cite me an act or spoken word of his at
all confirmatory of what you in general —— charge insinuate
against him. Stay, " ^ drawing nearer to him and speaking
yet lower
" heed what
201 211 Brittanic Magesty's Majesty's navy a capital
investment at small outlay . or none at all.
After a brief pause during
which the reminiscences abovementioned
passed vividly through his mind
and he weighed the import of Claggart's
last suggestion conveyed in the
phrase "pitfal under the clover," 20
and the more he weighed it the less
reliance he felt in the informer's
good faith, suddenly he turned
upon him and in a low voice : "Do you come to me,
master-at-arms with so foggy
a tale? Let the rest go. But , as to
Budd, cite me an act or spoken word of his at
all confirmatory of what you in general —— charge insinuate
against him. Stay, " ^ drawing nearer to him and speaking
yet lower
" heed what

Transcribed by: John Bryant