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Mr Hyde ‘the other…
‘the other snarled aloud into a savage laugh’
Mr Hyde ‘he answered never a word…
all of a sudden he broke out into a great flame of anger’
Mr Hyde ‘with ape-like fury…
‘with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway
Mr Hyde ‘the haunting sense…
‘the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders’
Dr Jekyll ‘a moment before i had been safe…
‘a moment before i had been safe of all men’s respect, wealthy, beloved[…]; and now i was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless,a known murderer, thrall to the gallows’
Dr Jekyll ‘i concealed…
‘i concealed my pleasures’ ‘i regarded and hid them with almost morbid sense of shame’
Dr Jekyll ‘at that time my virtue…
‘at that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion’
Poole ‘no, sir, that thing…
‘no, sir, that thing in the mask was never Dr.Jekyll- god knows what it was, but it was never Dr. Jekyll’
Poole ‘do you think …
‘do you think i do not know my master after twenty years? Do you think i do not know where his head comes to in the cabinet door, where i saw him every morning of my life?’
Mr Enfield ‘But i have studied the place…
‘but i have studied the place for myself[…] there is no other door, and nobody goes in or out of that one but, once in a great while, the gentleman of my adventure’
Mr Enfield ‘i never saw a circle …
‘i never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there was the 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’
Mr Utterson ‘he had an approved tolerance…
‘he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds’
Mr Utterson ‘i am ashamed of my…
‘i am shamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again’
Mr Utterson ‘he preferred to speak with Poole…
‘he preferred to speak with Poole upon the doorstop and surrounded by the air and sounds of the open city, rather than to be admitted into that house of voluntary bondage’
Dr Lanyon ‘such unscientific…
‘such unscientific balderdash’
Dr Lanyon ‘as for the moral turpitude that unveiled to me…
‘as for the moral turpitude hat man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, i can not, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror’
Dr Lanyon ‘here i took pity…
‘here i took pity on my visitor’s suspense, and some perhaps on my own growing curiosity’
’ the moment i choose…
‘the moment i choose i can be rid of Hyde’
‘if i am the chief of sinners …
‘If I am the chief of sinners than I am the chief of sufferers also’
’ Satan’s signature…
’ Satan’s signature upon his face’
“The more it looks
“The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask”
“Damned
“Damned juggernaut”
“ if he be mr Hyde
“‘If he be Mr Hyde’ he had thought ‘ I shall be Mr Seek’”
“With a hissing
“With a hissing intake of the breath”
Pale and
Pale and dwarfish
Gave an impression
Gave an impression of deformity
Murderous
Murderous mixture
He now sat
He now sat in the opposite side of the fire
Profound
Profound duplicity of life
Provinces of
Provinces of good and Ill which divide and compound mans dual nature
So profound
So profound a double-dealer
I was radically
I was radically both
Edward Hyde, alone in the
Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil
Jekyll had more than a fathers interest
Jekyll had more than a fathers interest; Hyde had more than a sons indifference
That child of hell
That child of hell had nothing human
With the most strained
With the most strained and fear struck ecstasy of listening
