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