203 213 With gray eyes impatient and
distrustful essaying to fathom to the
bottom the Claggart's calm violet ones,
Captain Vere again heard him out . ;
The perplexity then for the moment
stood ruminating. The mood he evinced,
Claggart — himself for the time liberated
from ^ the other's scrutiny — steadily regarded 22
with a look difficult to render, a
look curious of the operation of his
tactics, a look such as might have
been that of the spokesman of the
envious children of Jacob
deceptivly imposing upon the
troubled patriarch the blood-dyed
coat of young Joseph.
203 213 With gray eyes impatient and
distrustful essaying to fathom to the
bottom the Claggart's calm violet ones,
Captain Vere again heard him out . ;
The perplexity then for the moment
stood ruminating. The mood he evinced,
Claggart — himself for the time liberated
from ^ the other's scrutiny — steadily regarded 22
with a look difficult to render, a
look curious of the operation of his
tactics, a look such as might have
been that of the spokesman of the
envious children of Jacob
deceptivly imposing upon the
troubled patriarch the blood-dyed
coat of young Joseph.

Transcribed by: John Bryant