204 214 Now t T hough something
exceptional in the moral quality
of Captain Vere made him, in
earnest encounter with a fellow-man,
a veritable touch-stone of that man's
essential nature, yet now as to the
Claggart and what was ^ really going on in him
his feeling partook less of ^ intuitional conviction
than of strong suspicion clogged by 23
strange dubieties. That The perplexity
he evinced proceeded less from aught
touching the man informed against —
as Claggart doutless opined — than
from considerations how best to act
in regard to the informer. At first
indeed he was naturally for
204 214 Now t T hough something
exceptional in the moral quality
of Captain Vere made him, in
earnest encounter with a fellow-man,
a veritable touch-stone of that man's
essential nature, yet now as to the
Claggart and what was ^ really going on in him
his feeling partook less of ^ intuitional conviction
than of strong suspicion clogged by 23
strange dubieties. That The perplexity
he evinced proceeded less from aught
touching the man informed against —
as Claggart doutless opined — than
from considerations how best to act
in regard to the informer. At first
indeed he was naturally for

Transcribed by: John Bryant