chapter 4 Flashcards
the Carew Murder Case
“nearly a year…
later, in the month of October, 18- London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity”
“the details were…
few and startling”
“a fog rolled over…
the city in the small hours”
“aged beautiful…
gentleman with white hair”
“with a very pretty manner…
of politeness”
“innocent and old…
world kindness of disposition”
“he had in his hand…
a heavy cane”
“ill-contained…
impatience”
“and then all of a sudden…
he broke out in a great flame of anger”
“stamping with his foot…
brandishing the cane”
“like a…
madman”
“Mr Hyde broke out of all bounds…
and clubbed him to the earth
“ape-like fury…
he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing a storm of blows”
“the bones were…
audibly shattered”
“at the horror of these sights and sounds…
the maid fainted”
“rare and very tough…
and heavy wood”
“had broken in the middle…
under the stress of this insensate cruelty”
“he recognised it for one that he had presented…
many years before to Henry Jekyll”
“particularly small and…
wicked looking”
“this was the home of Henry Jekyll’s favourite…
of a man who was heir to a quarter of a million sterling”
“his habits were very…
irregular”
“it was nearly two months…
since she had seen him till yesterday”
“this is Inspector…
Newcomen of Scotland Yard”
“clothes lay about…
the floor, with their pockets inside out”
“from these embers…
the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book”
“his family could…
nowhere be traced”
“the haunting sense..
of unexpressed deformity”
