Gibraltar, an English port not very distant from the scene of the
fight. There, Captain Vere with the rest of the wounded was put
ashore. He lingered for some days, but the end came. Unhappily he
was cut off too early for the Nile and Trafalgar. The spirit that
spite its philosophic austerity may yet have indulged in the most
secret
Nike shox cheap of all passions,
ambition, never attained to the fulness of fame.
Not long before death, while lying under the influence of that
magical drug which soothing the physical frame mysteriously
operates on the subtler element in man, he was heard to murmur
words inexplicable to his attendant Billy Budd, Billy Budd. That
these were not the accents of remorse, would seem clear from what
the attendant said to the Indomitables senior officer of marines
who, as the most reluctant to condemn of the members of the drum
-head court, too well knew, tho here he kept the knowledge to
himself, who Billy Budd was.
Chapter 29
Some few weeks after the execution, among other matters under the
Cheap air max head of News from the
Mediterranean, there appeared in a naval chronicle of the time,
an authorized weekly publication, an account of the affair. It
was doubtless for the most part written in good faith, tho the
medium, partly rumor, through which the facts must have reached
the writer, served to deflect and in part falsify them. The
account was
Cheap nike shoes as follows:
On the tenth of the last month
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a deplorable occurrence took place on board H.M.S. Indomitable.
John Claggart, the ships Master-at-arms, discovering that some
sort of plot was incipient among an inferior section of the ships
company, and that the ringleader
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shoes
was one William Budd; he, Claggart, in the actof arraigning the man before the Captain was vindictively
Cheap nike
shox
stabbed to the heart by the suddenly drawnsheath-knife of Budd.
The deed and the implement employed, sufficiently suggest that
tho mustered into the service under an English name the assassin
was no Englishman, but one of those aliens adopting English
cognomens whom the present extraordinary necessities of the
Service have caused to be admitted into it in considerable
numbers.
The enormity of the crime and the extreme depravity of the
criminal, appear the greater in view of the character of the
victim, a middle-aged man respectable and discreet, belonging to
that official grade, the petty-officers, upon whom, as none know
better than the commissioned gentlemen, the efficiency of His
Majestys Navy so largely depends. His function was a responsible
one, at once onerous & thankless, and his fidelity in it the
greater because of his strong patriotic impulse. In this instance
as in so many other instances in these days, the character of
this unfortunate man signally refutes, if refutation were needed,
that peevish saying attributed to the late Dr. Johnson, that
patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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