At the penultimate moment, his words, his only ones, words wholly unobstructed in the utterance were these — "God bless Captain Vere!"


Ch. 25 - Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891)

Herman Melville Quotes

At the penultimate moment, his words, his only ones, words wholly unobstructed in the utterance were these — God bless Captain Vere!

At the penultimate moment, his words, his only ones, words wholly unobstructed in the utterance were these — God bless Captain Vere!

At the penultimate moment, his words, his only ones, words wholly unobstructed in the utterance were these — God bless Captain Vere!

At the penultimate moment, his words, his only ones, words wholly unobstructed in the utterance were these — God bless Captain Vere!