english Flashcards
jekyll and hyde
“If he be Mr. Hyde”
“If he be Mr. Hyde” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”
“i was coming home…..black winter morning”
“i was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning”
“the horrible part of the thing……and left her screaming on the ground”
“the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground”
” He was perfectly cool,….sweat on me like running”
“he was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look so ugly that it brought the sweat on me like running.”
“i saw……..desire to kill him”
“i saw that sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him.”
“as we were pitching it in red-hot,……i never saw a circle of such hateful faces”
“as we were pitching it in red-hot, we were keeping the women off him as best as we could, for they were as wild as harpies.I never saw a circle of such hateful faces;”
“and there was a man in the middle,….no gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene”
“And there was a man in the middle, with a kind of black, sneering coolness - frightened, too, I could see that- but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan. ‘if you choose to make a capital out of this accident.’ saidhe ‘ I am naturally helpless. No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,’”
“and that a man……for close upon a hundred pounds.”
“and that a man does not, in real life, walk into a cellar-door at four in the morning and come out with a man’s cheque for close upon a hundred pounds.”
“blackmail..some of the capers of his youth.”
“blackmail, I suppose ; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth.”
“She had an evil face”
“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.”
“Some day…after I am dead”
“Some day…after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.”
“I sometimes think if we knew all”
“I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.”
