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
Air max 2013

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 act

of arraigning the man before the Captain was vindictively
Cheap nike

shox

stabbed to the heart by the suddenly drawn

sheath-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.