Billy Budd - Softcover

Melville, Herman

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ISBN 10: 1978245726 ISBN 13: 9781978245723

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

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"The next day an incident served to confirm Billy Budd in his incredulity as to the Dansker's strange summing- up of the case submitted. The ship at noon, going large before the wind, was rolling on her course, and he, below at dinner and engaged in some sportful talk with the members of his mess, chanced in a sudden lurch to spill the entire contents of his soup-pan upon the new scrubbed deck. Claggart, the Master-at-arms, official rattan in hand, happened to be passing along the battery in a bay of which the mess was lodged, and the greasy liquid streamed just across his path. Stepping over it, he was proceeding on his way without comment, since the matter was nothing to take notice of under the circumstances, when he happened to observe who it was that had done the spilling."

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