Page 43
missing?
224 234 ——//—— Full of disquietude ^ and misgiving the prudent
Surgeon left the cabin. Was Captain
Vere suddenly affected in his mind ? , or 42
was it but a pas transient excitement condition , brought
about by so strange a &HS ^ unusual extraordinary ^ unexpected a tragedy? As to
where the As to the drum-head court, it
struck the Surgeon as impolitic, if nothing more.
The thing to do, he thought, was to confine
Bill place Billy Budd in confinement
and in a way way dictated by usage, and
postpone further action in so extraordinary a
case, to such time as they should
rejoin the squadron, and then refer it
to the Admiral. Again He recalled the
unwonted agitation of Captain Vere and his
excited exclamations
Page 43
missing?
224 234 ——//—— Full of disquietude ^ and misgiving the prudent
Surgeon left the cabin. Was Captain
Vere suddenly affected in his mind ? , or 42
was it but a pas transient excitement condition , brought
about by so strange a &HS ^ unusual extraordinary ^ unexpected a tragedy? As to
where the As to the drum-head court, it
struck the Surgeon as impolitic, if nothing more.
The thing to do, he thought, was to confine
Bill place Billy Budd in confinement
and in a way way dictated by usage, and
postpone further action in so extraordinary a
case, to such time as they should
rejoin the squadron, and then refer it
to the Admiral. Again He recalled the
unwonted agitation of Captain Vere and his
excited exclamations

Transcribed by: John Bryant