214 224 and entire body form straining
forward in an agony of ineffectual
eagerness to obey the injunction to
speak and defend himself, gave
an expression to the face like that of
a condemned vestal Vestal priestess in the moment
of being secretly buried alive, and
in the first struggle against suffocation. 32
Though at the time Captain
Vere was quite ignonrant of Billy's
liability to vocal impediment, he now
immediatly divined it, since vividly
Billy's aspect it ^ recalled to him that of a bright
young schoolmate of his whom he
had once seen struck by ^ much the same
214 224 and entire body form straining
forward in an agony of ineffectual
eagerness to obey the injunction to
speak and defend himself, gave
an expression to the face like that of
a condemned vestal Vestal priestess in the moment
of being secretly buried alive, and
in the first struggle against suffocation. 32
Though at the time Captain
Vere was quite ignonrant of Billy's
liability to vocal impediment, he now
immediatly divined it, since vividly
Billy's aspect it ^ recalled to him that of a bright
young schoolmate of his whom he
had once seen struck by ^ much the same

Transcribed by: John Bryant