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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of the Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and
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  Speaker 1: Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: by Phil Schinever Baton Rouge Louisiana. The Strange Case of
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson, Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: Story of the Door. Mister Utterson, the lawyer, was a
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  Speaker 1: man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by
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  Speaker 1: a smile, cold scanty, and embarrassed in discourse, backward in sentiment, lean, long, dusty, dreary,
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  Speaker 1: and yet somehow lovable at friendly meetings than when the
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  Speaker 1: wine was to his taste. Something eminently human beaconed from
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  Speaker 1: his eye, something indeed, which never found its way into
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  Speaker 1: his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent
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  Speaker 1: symbols of the after dinner face, but more often and
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  Speaker 1: loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere
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  Speaker 1: with himself, drank gin when he was alone to mortify
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  Speaker 1: a taste for vintages, and although he enjoyed the theater
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  Speaker 1: had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: but he had that approved tolerance for others, sometimes wondering
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  Speaker 1: almost with envy at the high pressure of spirits involved
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  Speaker 1: in their misdeeds, and in any extremity inclined to help
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  Speaker 1: rather than to reprove I inclined to Kin's heresy, he
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  Speaker 1: used to say, quaintly, I let my brother go to
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  Speaker 1: the devil in his own way. In this character, it
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  Speaker 1: was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance
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  Speaker 1: and the last good influence in the lives of down
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  Speaker 1: going men. And to such as these, so long as
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  Speaker 1: they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade
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  Speaker 1: of change in his demeanor. No doubt this feat was
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  Speaker 1: easy to mister Utterson, for he was undemonstrative at the best,
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  Speaker 1: and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a
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  Speaker 1: similar catholicity of good nature. It is the mark of
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  Speaker 1: a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready made
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  Speaker 1: from the hands of opportunity, and that was the lawyer's way.
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  Speaker 1: His friends were those of his own blood, or those
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  Speaker 1: whom he had known the longest. His affections, like ivy,
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  Speaker 1: were the growth of time. They implied no aptness in
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  Speaker 1: the object, hints no doubt the bond that united him
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  Speaker 1: to mister Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well known
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  Speaker 1: man about town. It was a nut to crack for
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  Speaker 1: many what these two could see in each other, or
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  Speaker 1: what subject they could find in common. It was reported
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  Speaker 1: by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks that
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  Speaker 1: they said nothing looked singularly dull, and would hail with
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  Speaker 1: obvious relief the appearance of a friend. For all that
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  Speaker 1: the two men put the greatest store by these excursions,
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  Speaker 1: counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not
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  Speaker 1: only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the
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  Speaker 1: calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted. It chanced,
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  Speaker 1: on one of these rambles that their way led them
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  Speaker 1: down a by street in a busy quarter of London.
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  Speaker 1: The street was small, in what is called quiet, but
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  Speaker 1: it drove a thriving trade on the week days. The
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  Speaker 1: inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously
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  Speaker 1: hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplice
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  Speaker 1: of their gains in coquetry, so that the shop front
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  Speaker 1: stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like
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  Speaker 1: rows of smiling saleswomen. Even on Sunday, when it veiled
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  Speaker 1: its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage,
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  Speaker 1: the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: like a fire in a forest, and with its freshly
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  Speaker 1: painted shutters, well polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety
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  Speaker 1: of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger.
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  Speaker 1: Two doors from one corner on the left hand, going east,
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  Speaker 1: the line was broken by the entry of a court,
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  Speaker 1: and just at that point a certain sinister block of
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  Speaker 1: building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was
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  Speaker 1: two stories high, showed no window, nothing but a door
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  Speaker 1: on the lower story, and a blind forehead of discolored
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  Speaker 1: wall on the upper, and bore in every feature the
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  Speaker 1: marks of prolonged and sordid negligence. The door, which was
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  Speaker 1: equipped with neither bell nor knock, was blistered and disdained.
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  Speaker 1: Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels.
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  Speaker 1: Children kept shop upon the steps. The schoolboy had tried
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  Speaker 1: his knife on the moldings, and for close on a
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  Speaker 1: generation no one had appeared to drive away these random
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  Speaker 1: visitors or to repair their ravages. Mister Enfield and the
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  Speaker 1: lawyer were on the other side of the by street,
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  Speaker 1: But when they came abreast of the entry, the farmer
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  Speaker 1: lifted up his cane and pointed. Did you ever remark
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  Speaker 1: on that door? He asked, And when his companion had
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  Speaker 1: replied in the affirmative, it is connected in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: added he, with a very odd story. Indeed, said mister Utterson,
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  Speaker 1: with a slight change of voice, and what was that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it was this way, returned mister Enfield. I was coming
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  Speaker 1: home from some place at the end of the world,
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  Speaker 1: about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my
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  Speaker 1: way lay through a part of town where there was
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  Speaker 1: literally nothing to be seen but lamps, street after street,
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  Speaker 1: and all the folks asleep, street after street, all lighted
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  Speaker 1: up as if for a procession, and all as empty
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  Speaker 1: as a church. Till at last I got into that
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  Speaker 1: state of mind when a man listens and listens and
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  Speaker 1: begins to long for the sight of a policeman. All
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  Speaker 1: at once I saw two figures, one a little man
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  Speaker 1: who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and
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  Speaker 1: the other a girl of maybe eight or ten, who
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  Speaker 1: was running as hard as she was able down across street. Well, sir,
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  Speaker 1: the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner,
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  Speaker 1: and then came the horrible part of the thing. For
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  Speaker 1: the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left
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  Speaker 1: her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear,
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  Speaker 1: but it was hellish to see. It wasn't like a man,
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  Speaker 1: It was like some damned juggernaut. I gave a few halloa,
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  Speaker 1: took to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought him
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  Speaker 1: back to where there was already quite a group about
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  Speaker 1: the screaming child. He was perfectly cool and made no resistance,
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  Speaker 1: but gave me one look so ugly that it brought
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  Speaker 1: out the sweat on me, like running. The people who
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  Speaker 1: had turned out were the girl's own family, and pretty
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  Speaker 1: soon the doctor for whom she had been sent put
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  Speaker 1: in his appearance. Well, the child was not so much
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  Speaker 1: the worse, more frightened, according to the saw bones. And there,
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  Speaker 1: you might have supposed, would be an end to it.
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  Speaker 1: But there was one curious circumstance. I had taken a
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  Speaker 1: loathing to my gentleman at first sight, so had the
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  Speaker 1: child's family, which was only natural. But the doctor's case
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  Speaker 1: was what struck me. He was the usual cut in
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  Speaker 1: dry apothecary, of no particular age and color, with a
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  Speaker 1: strong Edinburgh accent, and about as emotional as the bagpipe. Well, sir,
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  Speaker 1: he was like the rest of us. Every time he
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  Speaker 1: looked at my prisoner, I saw that saw bones turn
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  Speaker 1: sick and white with a desire to kill him. I
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  Speaker 1: knew what was in his mind, just as he knew
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  Speaker 1: what was in mine. And killing being out of the question,
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  Speaker 1: we did the next best. We told the man we
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  Speaker 1: could and would make such a scandal out of this
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  Speaker 1: as should make his name stink from one end of
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  Speaker 1: London to the other. If he had any friends or
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  Speaker 1: any credit, we undertook that he should lose them. And
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  Speaker 1: all the time as we were pitching it in red hot,
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  Speaker 1: we were keeping the women off him as best we could,
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  Speaker 1: for they were as wild as harpies. I never saw
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  Speaker 1: a circle of such hateful faces. And there was the
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  Speaker 1: man in the middle, with a kind of blacks nearing coolness.
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  Speaker 1: Frightened too, I could see that. But carrying it off, sir,
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  Speaker 1: really like satan. If you choose to make capital out
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  Speaker 1: of this accident, said he. I am naturally helpless, no gentleman,
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  Speaker 1: but wishes to avoid a scene, says he name your figure. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the
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  Speaker 1: child's family. He would have clearly liked to stick out,
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  Speaker 1: but there was something about the lot of us that
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  Speaker 1: meant mischief, and at last he struck. The next thing
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  Speaker 1: was to get the money. And where do you think
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  Speaker 1: he carried us? But to that place with the door
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  Speaker 1: whipped out, A key went in and presently came back
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  Speaker 1: with a matter of ten pounds in gold and a
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  Speaker 1: check for the balance on counts drawn, payable to bearro
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  Speaker 1: and signed with the name that I can't mention though
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the points of my story, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a name at least very well known and often printed.
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  Speaker 1: The figure was stiff, but the signature was good for
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  Speaker 1: more than that, if it was only genuine. I took
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  Speaker 1: the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the
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  Speaker 1: whole business looked apocryphal, and that a man does not
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  Speaker 1: in real life walk into a cellar door at four
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  Speaker 1: in the morning and come out with another man's check
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  Speaker 1: for close upon a hundred pounds. But he was quite
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  Speaker 1: easy and sneering. Set your mind at rest, says he.
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  Speaker 1: I will stay with you till the banks open, and
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  Speaker 1: cast a check myself. So we all set off, the
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  Speaker 1: doctor and the child's father, and our friend and myself,
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  Speaker 1: and passed the rest of the night in my chambers.
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  Speaker 1: And next day, when we had breakfasted, went in a
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  Speaker 1: body to the bank. I gave in the check myself
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  Speaker 1: and said I had every reason to believe it was
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  Speaker 1: the forgery, not a bit of it. The check was genuine.
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  Speaker 1: Tot tot, said mister Utterson. I see you feel as
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  Speaker 1: I do, said mister Enfield. Yes, it's a bad story.
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  Speaker 1: For my man was a fellow that nobody could have
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  Speaker 1: to do with, a really damnable man. And the person
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  Speaker 1: that drew the check is in the very pink of
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  Speaker 1: the proprieties celebrated too. And what makes it worse one
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  Speaker 1: of your fellows who do what they call good blackmail.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose an honest man paying through the nose for
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  Speaker 1: some of the capers of his youth. Black mail house
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  Speaker 1: is what I call the place with the door. In consequence,
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  Speaker 1: though even that, you know, is far from explaining all
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  Speaker 1: he added, and with the words fell into a vein
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  Speaker 1: of musing. From this he was recalled by mister Utterson,
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  Speaker 1: asking rather suddenly, and you don't know if the draw
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  Speaker 1: of the check lives there a likely place, isn't it,
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  Speaker 1: returned mister Enfield. But I happen to have noticed his address.
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  Speaker 1: He lives in some square or other, And you never
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  Speaker 1: asked about the place with the door, said mister Utterson. No, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I had a delicacy, was the reply. I feel very
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  Speaker 1: strongly about putting questions. It partakes too much of the
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  Speaker 1: style of the day of judgment. You start a question
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  Speaker 1: and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on
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  Speaker 1: the top of a hill, and away the stone goes,
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  Speaker 1: starting others, and presently some bland old bird, the last
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  Speaker 1: you would have thought of, is knocked on the head
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  Speaker 1: in his own back garden, and the family have to
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  Speaker 1: change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule
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  Speaker 1: of mine. The more it looks like Queer Street, the
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  Speaker 1: less I ask. A very good rule too, said the lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: But I have studied the place for myself, continued mister Enfield.
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  Speaker 1: It seems scarcely a house. There is no other door,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody goes in or out of that one, but
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  Speaker 1: once in a great while, the gentleman of my adventure.
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  Speaker 1: There are three windows looking on the court on the
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  Speaker 1: first floor, none below. The windows are always shut, but
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  Speaker 1: they're clean. And then there is a chimney which is
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  Speaker 1: generally smoking. So somebody must live there. And yet it's
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  Speaker 1: not so sure, for the buildings are so packed together
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  Speaker 1: about the court that it's hard to say where one
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  Speaker 1: ends and another begins. The pair walked on again for
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  Speaker 1: a while in silence, and then Enfield said mister Utterson.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good rule of yours. Yes, I think it is,
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  Speaker 1: returned Enfield. But for all that, continued the lawyer, there's
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  Speaker 1: one point I want to ask. I want to ask
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  Speaker 1: the name of that man who walked over the child. Well,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Enfield. I can't see what harm it would do.
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  Speaker 1: It was a man of the name of Hyde, Hm,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Utterson. What sort of a man is he?
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  Speaker 1: To see? He is not easy to describe. There is
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  Speaker 1: something wrong with his appearance, something displeasing, something downright detestable.
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  Speaker 1: I never saw a man ey so disliked, and yet
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  Speaker 1: I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere he
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  Speaker 1: gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify
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  Speaker 1: the point. He's an extraordinary looking man, and yet I
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  Speaker 1: really can name nothing out of the way. No, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: I can make no hand of it. I can't describe him.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not want of memory, for I declare I
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  Speaker 1: can see him this moment. Mister Utterson again walked some
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  Speaker 1: way in silence, and obviously under a weight of consideration.
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  Speaker 1: You are sure he used a key, he inquired at last,
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  Speaker 1: My dear sir, began Enfield, surprised out of himself. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know, said Utterson. I know it must seem strange.
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  Speaker 1: The fact is, if I do not ask you the
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  Speaker 1: name of the other party, it is because I know
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  Speaker 1: it already. You see, Richard, your tale has gone home.
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  Speaker 1: If you have been inexact than any point, you had
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  Speaker 1: better correct it. I think you might have warned me,
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  Speaker 1: returned the other with a touch of sullenness. But I
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  Speaker 1: have been pedantically exact, as you call it. The fellow
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  Speaker 1: had a key, and what's more, he has it still.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him use it not a week ago. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Utterson sighed deeply, but said never a word, and the
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  Speaker 1: young man presently resumed. Here is another lesson to say nothing,
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  Speaker 1: said he. I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let
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  Speaker 1: us make a bargain never to refer to this again.
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  Speaker 1: With all my heart, said the lawyer, I shake hands
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  Speaker 1: on that Richard. End of chapter one, chapter two of
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  Speaker 1: The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by
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  Speaker 1: Robert Lewis Stevenson. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, Search for Mister Hyde. That evening, mister Utterson
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  Speaker 1: came home to his bachelor house in Somber Spirits and
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  Speaker 1: sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom
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  Speaker 1: of a Sunday when this meal was over, to sit
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  Speaker 1: close by the fire a volume of some dry divinity
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  Speaker 1: on his reading desk until the clock of the neighboring
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  Speaker 1: church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would
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  Speaker 1: go soberly and gratefully to bed. On this night, however,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as the cloth was taken away, he took
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  Speaker 1: up a candle and went into his business room. There
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  Speaker 1: he opened his safe, took from the most private part
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  Speaker 1: of it a document endorsed or the envelope as doctor
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  Speaker 1: Jackal's will, and sat down with a clouded brow to
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  Speaker 1: study its contents. The will was a holograph for mister Utterson,
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  Speaker 1: though he took charge of it now that it was made,
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  Speaker 1: had refused to lend the least assistance in the making
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  Speaker 1: of it. It provided not only that, in case of
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  Speaker 1: the decease of Henry Jekyll M, D, D C L
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  Speaker 1: L L D, F R, s, et cetera, all his
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  Speaker 1: possessions were to pass into the hands of his quote
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  Speaker 1: friend and benefactor Edward Hyde close quote. But in the
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  Speaker 1: case of doctor Jackal's quote disappearance or unexplained absence for
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  Speaker 1: any period exceeding three calendar months close quote, the said
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  Speaker 1: Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jeckys' shoes
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  Speaker 1: without further delay, and free from any burden or obligation
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  Speaker 1: beyond the payment of a few small sums to the
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  Speaker 1: members of the doctor's household. This document had long been
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  Speaker 1: the lawyer's eyesre It offended him, both as a lawyer
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  Speaker 1: and as a lover of the sane and customary sides
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  Speaker 1: of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest and
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  Speaker 1: hitherto it was his ignorance of mister Hyde that had
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  Speaker 1: swelled his indignation. Now by a sudden turn, it was
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  Speaker 1: his knowledge. It was already bad enough when the name
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  Speaker 1: was but a name of which he could learn no more.
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  Speaker 1: It was worse when it began to be clothed upon
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  Speaker 1: with detestable attributes. And out of the shifting in substantial
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  Speaker 1: mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped
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  Speaker 1: up the sudden, definite presentiment of a fiend. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was madness, he said, as he replaced the obnoxious
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  Speaker 1: paper in the safe. And now I began to fear
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  Speaker 1: it is disgrace. With that, he blew out his candle,
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  Speaker 1: put on a greatcoat, and set forth in the direction
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  Speaker 1: of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine, where his friend,
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  Speaker 1: the great doctor Lanyon had his house, and received his
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  Speaker 1: crowding patience. If anyone knows it will be Landon, he
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  Speaker 1: had thought. The solemn butler knew and welcomed him. He
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  Speaker 1: was subjected to no stage of delay, but ushered directly
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  Speaker 1: from the door to the dining room, where Doctor Lanyon
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  Speaker 1: sat alone over his wine. This was a hearty, healthy, dapper,
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  Speaker 1: red faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white,
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  Speaker 1: and a boisterous and decided manner. At the sight of
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  Speaker 1: mister Utterson, he sprang up from his chair and welcomed
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  Speaker 1: him with both hand. The geniality, as was the way
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  Speaker 1: of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye, but
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  Speaker 1: it reposed on genuine feeling. For these two were old friends,
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  Speaker 1: old mates both at school and college, both thorough respectors
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  Speaker 1: of themselves and of each other. And what does not
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  Speaker 1: always follow men who thoroughly enjoyed each other's company. After
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  Speaker 1: a little rambling talk, the lawyer led up to the
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  Speaker 1: subject which so disagreeably preoccupied his mind. I suppose, Lanion,
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  Speaker 1: said he, You and I must be the two oldest
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  Speaker 1: friends that Henry juckal has. I wish the friends were younger,
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  Speaker 1: chuckled doctor Lanion. But I suppose we are, and what
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  Speaker 1: of that? I see little of him now? Indeed, said Utterson,
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  Speaker 1: I thought you had a bond of common interest we had,
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  Speaker 1: was the reply. But it is more than ten years
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  Speaker 1: since Henry Juckle became too fanciful for me. He began
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  Speaker 1: to go wrong, wrong in mind, And though of course
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  Speaker 1: I continue to take an interest in him for old's sake,
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  Speaker 1: as they say, I see and I have seen devilish
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  Speaker 1: little of the man. Such unscientific balderdash, added the doctor,
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  Speaker 1: flushing suddenly purple would have strange, damon and pytheas. This
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  Speaker 1: little spirit of temper was somewhat of a relief to
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson. They have only differed on some point of science,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: he thought, And being a man of no scientific passions
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: except in the matter of conveyancing, he even added, it
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: is nothing worse than that. He gave his friend a
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: few seconds to recover his composure, then approached the question
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: he had come to put. Did you ever come across
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: us a protege of his? One? Hide? He asked, Hide,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: repeated Lanyon, No, never heard of him since my time.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: That was the amount of information that the lawyer carried
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: back with him to the great dark bed, on which
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: he tossed to and fro until the small hours of
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the morning began to grow large. It was a night
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: darkness and besieged by questions. Six o'clock struck on the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: bells of the church that was so conveniently near to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson's dwelling, And still he was digging at the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: problem hitherto it had touched him on the intellectual side alone.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: But now his imagination also was engaged, or rather enslaved.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: of the night and the curtained room, mister Enfield's tail
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: He would be aware of the great field of lamps
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: of a nocturnal city, then of the figure of a
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: man walking swiftly, then of a child running from the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: doctor's and then these met, and that human juggernaut trod
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the child down and passed on, regardless of her screams.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Or else he would see a room in a rich
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: house where his friend lay asleep, dreaming and smiling at
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: his dreams. And then the door of that room would
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: be opened, and the curtains of the bed plucked apart.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: The sleeper recalled, and lo there would stand by his side,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: a figure to whom power was given, and even at
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that dead hour he must rise and do its bidding.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: The figure in these two faces haunted the lawyer all night,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and if at any time he dozed over, it was
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: or move the more swiftly, and still the more swiftly,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: even to dizziness, through wilder labyrinths of lamp lighted city,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: and at every street corner crush a child and leave
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: her screaming. And still the figure had no face by
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: which he might know it even in his dreams. It
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: had no face, or one that baffled him and melted
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: before his eyes. And thus it was that there sprang
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: up and grew a pace in the lawyer's mind, a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: singularly strong, almost and inordinate curiosity to behold the features
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: of the real mister Hyde. If he could but once
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: set eyes on him, he thought the mystery would lighten
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and perhaps roll all together away, as was the habit
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: of mysterious things. When well examined, he might see a
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: reason for his friend's strange preference or bondage, call it
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: which you please, Even for the startling claws of the will.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: At least it would be a face worth seeing, the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: face of a man who was without bowels of mercy,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: a face which had but to show itself, to raise
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: up in the mind of the unimpressionable infield a spirit
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: of enduring hatred. From that time forward, mister Utterson began
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to haunt the door in the by street of shops
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: in the morning before office hours, at noon, when business
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: was plenty and times scarce. At night, under the face
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: of the fogged city moon, by all lights, and at
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: all hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: be found on his chosen post. If he be mister Hyde,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: he had thought, I shall be misters Sikh, And at
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: last his patience was rewarded. It was a fine, dry night,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: frost in the air, the streets as clean as the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: ballroom floor, the lamp sunshaken by any wind, drawing a
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: regular pattern of light and shadow. By ten o'clock, when
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the shops were closed, the by street was very solitary, and,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: in spite of the low growl of London, from all round,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: very silent. Small sounds carried far. Domestic sounds out of
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the houses were clearly audible on either side of the roadway,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and the rumor of the approach of any passenger preceded
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: him by a long time. Mister Utterson had been some
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: minutes at his post when he was aware of odd
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: light footsteps drawing near. In the course of his nightly patrols.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: He had long grown accustomed to the quaint effect with
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: which the footfalls of a single person, while he is
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: still a great way off, suddenly spring out, distinct from
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the vast hum and clatter of the city. Yet his
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and it was with a strong, superstitious prevision of success
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: that he withdrew into the entry of the court. The
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: steps grew swiftly nearer and swelled out suddenly louder as
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: they turned the end of the street. The lawyer, looking
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: forth from the entry could see what manner of man
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: he had to deal with. He was small and very
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: plainly dressed, and the look of him, even at that distance,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: went somehow strongly against the watcher's inclination. But he made
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: straight for the door, crossing the roadway to save time,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and as he came he drew a key from his pocket,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: like one approaching home. Mister Utterson stepped out and touched
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: him on the shoulder as he passed mister Hyde. I
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: believe mister Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the breath, but his fear was only momentary, and though
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: he did not look the lawyer in the face, he
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: answered coolly enough. That is my name. What do you want?
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I see you are going in, returned the lawyer. I
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: am an old friend of doctor Juckles, mister Utterson of
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Gaunt Street. You must have heard of my name and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: meeting you so conveniently, I thought you might admit me.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: You will not find doctor Juckle. He is from home,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: replied mister Hyde, blowing in the key, and then suddenly,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but still without looking up, how did you know me?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: He asked? On your side, said mister Utterson. Will you
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: do me a favor with pleasure? Replied the other. What
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: shall it be? Will you let me see your face?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Asked the lawyer. Mister Hyde appeared to hesitate, and then,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: as if upon some sudden reflection, fronted about with an
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: air of defiance, and the pair stared at each other
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: pretty fixedly for several seconds. Now I shall know you again,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: said mister Utterson. It may be useful, yes, returned mister Hyde.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: It is as well we have met, and a propos
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: you should have my address, and he gave a number
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: of a street in Soho. Good God, thought mister Utterson.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Can he too have been thinking of the will, but
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: he kept his feelings to himself, and only grunted an
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: acknowledgment of the address, And now said the other, how
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: did you know mean by description? Was the reply? Whose
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: description we have common friends, said mister Utterson. Common friends,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: echoed mister Hyde, a little hoarsely. Who are they juckal
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: for instance? Said the lawyer. He never told you, cried
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: mister Hyde, with a flush of anger. I did not
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: think you would have lied. Come, said mister Utterson. That
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: is not fitting language. The other snarled aloud into a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: savage laugh, and at the next moment, with extra ordinary quickness,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: The lawyer stood awhile when mister Hyde had left him
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the picture of disquietude. Then he began slowly to mount
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the street, pausing every step or two and putting his
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: hand to his brow, like a man in mental perplexity.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: The problem he was thus debating as he walked was
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: one of a class that is rarely solved. Mister Hyde
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: was pale and dwarfish. He gave an impression of deformity
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: without any nameable malformation. He had a displeasing smile. He
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: a husky whispering and somewhat broken voice. All these were
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: points against him, but not all of these together could
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing, and fear with which
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson regarded him. There must be something else, said
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the perplexed gentleman. There is something more, if I could
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: find a name for it, God bless me. The man
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: seems hardly human, something truglitic, shall we say? Or can
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: it be the old story of doctor Pell? Or is
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: transpires through and transfigures its clay countinent? The last I think,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: for oh my poor old Harry chuckle. If ever I
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: read Satan's signature upon a face, it is upon that
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: of your new friend. Round the corner from the by street,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: there was a square of ancient, handsome houses, now for
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the most part, decayed from their high estate, and let
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: in flats and chambers to all sorts and conditions of men,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: mapp engravers, architects, shady lawyers, and the agents of obscure enterprises.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: One house, however, second from the corner was still occupied
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: entire and at the door of this which wore a
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: great air of wealth and comfort, though it was now
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: plunged in darkness except for the fan light, mister Utterson
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: stopped and knocked. A well dressed elderly servant opened the door.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Is doctor Jackal at home? Pool, asked the lawyer. I
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: will see, mister Utterson, said Poole, admitting the visitor as
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: he spoke into a large, low roofed, comfortable hall, paved
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: with flags, warmed after the fashion of a country house,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: by a bright open fire, and furnished with costly cabinets
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: of oak. Will you wait here by the fire, sir?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Or shall I give you a light in the dining room? Here?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you? Said the lawyer, and he drew near and
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: leaned on the tall fender. This hall, in which he
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: was now left alone, was a pet fancy of his friend,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the doctor's, and Utterson himself was wont to speak of
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: it as the pleasantest room in London. But tonight there
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: was a shudder in his blood. The face of Hyde
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: sat heavy on his memory. He felt what was rare
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: with him, a nausea and distaste of life, and in
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the gloom of his spirits. He seemed to read a
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: menace in the flickering of the firelight on the polished
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: He was ashamed of his relief when Poole presently returned
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: to announce that doctor Jackal was gone out. I saw
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: mister Hyde go in by the old dissecting room, Poole,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: he said, Is that right when doctor Jackal is from home?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Quite right, mister Utterson, Sir, replied the servant. Mister Hyde
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: has a key. Your master seems to repose a great
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: deal of trust in that young man. Poole resumed the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: other musingly, Yes, sir, he does. Indeed, said Poole, we
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: have all orders to obey him. I do not think
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I have ever met mister Hyde, asked Utterson. Oh dear, No, sir,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: he never dines here, replied the butler. Indeed, we see
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: very little of him on this side of the house.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: He mostly comes and goes by the laboratory. Well, good night, Pool,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: good night. Mister Utterson and the lawyer set out homeward
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: with a very heavy heart. Poor Harry Juckle, he thought,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: my mind misgives me he is in deep waters. He
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: was wild when he was young, a long time ago,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: to be sure. But in the law of God there
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: is no statute of limitations. Ah, it must be that
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: concealed disgrace, punishment coming payday cloudo years after memory forgotten
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and self love condoned the fault, and the lawyer, scared
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: by the thought, brooded awhile on his past, groping in
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: in the box of an old iniquity should leap to light. There.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: His past was fairly blameless. Few men could read the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: rolls of their life with less apprehension. Yet he was
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: humbled to the dust by the many ill things he
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: had done, and raised up again into a sober and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to doing yet avoided. And then by a return on
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: his former subject, he conceived a spark of hope. This
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: master Hide, if he were studied, thought he must have
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: secrets of his own, black secrets, by the look of him,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: secrets compared to which poor Juckal's worst would be like sunshine.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Things cannot continue as they are. It turns me cold
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: to think of this creature stealing like a thief to
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Harry's bedside. Poor Harry, What a wakening, and the danger
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: of it. For if this hide suspects the existence of
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the will, he may grow impatient to inherit. Ay, I
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: must put my shoulders to the wheel, if Jeckyll will
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: but let me, he added, if Jackal will only let me.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: For once more he saw before his mind's eye, as
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: clear as transparency, the strange clauses of the will. End
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: of chapter two chapter three of The Strange Case of
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson. This
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter three. Doctor
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Jackal was quite at ease. A fortnight later, by excellent
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: good fortune, the Doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent, reputable men,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: and all judges of good wine, and mister Utterson so
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: contrived that he remained behind after the others had departed.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: This was no new arrangement, but a thing that had
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: befallen many scores of times where Utterson was liked. He
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: was liked well. Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: when the light hearted and loose tongued had already had
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: their foot on the threshold. They liked to sit awhile
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: in his unobstrusive company, practicing for solitude, sobering their minds
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: of gaiety. To this rule, doctor Jekyll was no exception,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and as he now sat on the opposite side of
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the fire, a large, well made, smooth faced man of fifty,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: with something of a stylish cast, perhaps, but every mark
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: of capacity and kindness you could see by his looks
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: that he cherished for mister Utterson a sincere and warm affection.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I have been wanting to speak to you, Juckal began
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the latter, You know that will of yours. A close
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful, but
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the doctor carried it off gaily. My poor Utterson said
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: he you are unfortunate in such a client. I never
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: saw a man so distressed as you were by my will,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: unless it were that hide bound pedant Lanion at what
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: he called my scientific heresies. Oh, I know he's a
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: good fellow. You needn't frown. An excellent fellow, and I
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: always mean to see more of him, But a hide
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: bound pedant for all that, an ignorant, blatant pedant. I
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: was never more disappointed in any man than Lanion. You
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: know I never approved of it, pursued Utterson, ruthlessly, disregarding
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the fresh topic my will. Yes, certainly, I know that,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: said the doctor. A trifle sharply. You have told me
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: so well, I tell you so again, continued the lawyer.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I have been learning something of young hide. The large
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: handsome face of doctor Jackyll grew pale to the very lips,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: and there came a blackness about his eyes. I do
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: not care to hear more, said he. This is a
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: matter I thought we had agreed to drop. What I
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: heard was abominable, said Utterson. It can make no change.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: You do not understand my position, returned the doctor, with
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: a certain incoherency of manner. I am painfully situated, Utterson.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: My position is very strange, a very strange one. It
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking. Jackyl,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: said Utterson. You me, I'm a man to be trusted.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Make a clean breast of this in confidence, and I
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: make no doubt I can get you out of it,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: my good Utterson, said the doctor. This is very good
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: of you, This is downright good of you, and I
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: cannot find words to thank you in. I believe you fully.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I would trust you before any man alive, ay before myself,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: if I could make the choice. But indeed it isn't
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: what you fancy. It is not as bad as that.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: And just to put your good heart at rest, I
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: will tell you one thing. The moment I choose I
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: can be rid of mister Hyde. I give you my
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: hand upon that, and I thank you again and again,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: and I will add just one little word, Utterson, that
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you will take in good part. This is
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: a private matter, and I beg of you to let
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: it sleep. And reflected a little, looking in the fire.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I have no doubt you are perfectly right, he said,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: at last, getting to his feet. Well, but since we
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: have touched upon this business and for the last time,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: I hope, continued the doctor. There is one point I
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: should like you to understand. I have really a very
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: great interest in poor Hide. I know you have seen him.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: He told me so, and I fear he was rude,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: But I do sincerely take a great, a very great
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: interest in that young man, and if I am taken away, Utterson,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I wish you to promise me that you will bear
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: with him and get his rights for him. I think
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: you would if you knew all, and it would be
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: a weight off my mind if you would promise. I
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: can't pretend that I shall ever like him, said the lawyer.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I don't ask that pleaded jackal, laying his hand upon
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: the other's arm. I only ask for justice. I only
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: ask you to help him for my sake. When I
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: am no longer here, Artison, heaved an irrepressible sigh. Well
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: said he, I promise. End of chapter three, chapter four
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: of The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: by Robert Lewis Stevenson. This LibriVox recording is in the
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: public domain. Chapter four the Carew murder case. Nearly a
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: year later, in the month of October eighteen, Blank, London
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: was startled by a crime of singular ferocity, and rendered
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: all the more notable by the high position of the victim.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: The details were few and startling. A maid servant living
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: alone in a house not far from the river, had
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: gone upstairs to bed about eleven. Although a fog rolled
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: over the city in the small hours, the early part
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: of the night was cloudless, and the lane which the
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: maid's window overlooked was brilliantly lit by the full moon.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: It seems she was romantically given, for she sat down
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: upon her box, which stood immediately under the window, and
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: fell into a dream of musing. Never, she used to say,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: with streaming tears, when she now rated that experience, never
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: had she felt more at peace with all men, or
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: thought more kindly of the world. And as she so sat,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: she became aware of an aged, beautiful gentleman with white hair,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: drawing near along the lane, and advancing to meet him,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: another and very small gentleman, to whom at first she
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: paid less attention. When they had come within speech, which
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: was just under the maid's eyes, the older man bowed
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: and accosted the other with a very pretty manner of politeness.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: It did not seem as if the subject of his
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: address were of great importance. Indeed, from his pointing, it
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: sometimes appeared as if he were only inquiring his way.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: But the moon shone on his face as he spoke,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: and the girl was pleased to watch it. It seemed
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: to breathe such an innocent and old world kindness of disposition,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: yet with something high too, as of a well founded
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: self content. Presently, Harra wondered to the other, and she
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: was surprised to recognize in him a certain mister Hyde,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: who had once visited her master, and for whom she
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: had conceived a dislike. He had in his hand a
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: heavy cane with which he was trifling, but he answered
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: never a word, and seemed to listen with an ill
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: contained impatience. And then all of a sudden he broke
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: brandishing the cane, and carrying on, as the maid described it,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: like a man man. The old gentleman took a step
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: back with the air of one very much surprised and
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: a trifle hurt, And at that mister Hyde broke out
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth, And
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: the next moment, with ape like fury, he was trampling
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: under which the bones were audibly shattered, and the body
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: jumped upon the roadway. At the horror of these sights
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: and sounds, the maid fainted. It was two o'clock when
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: she came to herself and call for the police. The
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: murderer was gone long ago, but there lay his victim
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: with which the deed had been done, although it was
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: broken in the middle under the stress of this incense
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: a cruelty, and one splintered half had rolled in the
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: neighbor and gutter. The other, without doubt, had been carried
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: away by the murderer. A purse and gold watch were
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: found upon the victim, but no cards or papers, except
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: a sealed and stamped envelope which he had been probably
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: carrying to the post, and which bore the name and
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: address of mister Utterson. This was brought to the lawyer
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: the next morning, before he was out of bed, and
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: he had no sooner seen it, and been told the
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: circumstances that he shot out a solemn lip. I shall
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: say nothing till I have seen the body, said he,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: this may be very serious. Have the kindness to wait
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: while I dress, And with the same grave countenance, he
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: whither the body had been carried. As soon as he
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: came into the cell, he nodded, yes, said he I
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: recognize him. I am sorry to say that this is
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Sir Danvers Carew good God, sir, exclaimed the officer. Is
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: it possible? And the next moment his eye lighted up
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: with professional ambition. This will make a great deal of noise,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: he said, and perhaps you can help us to the man.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: And he briefly narrated what the maid had seen, and
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: showed the broken stick. Mister Utterson had already quailed the
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: name of Hyde, but when the stick was laid before him,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: he could doubt no longer broken and battered as it was.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: He recognized it for one that he had himself presented
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: many years before to Henry Jekyll. Is this mister Hyde
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: a person of small stature, he inquired, particularly small and
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: particularly wicked looking, is what the maid calls him, said
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the officer. Mister Utterson reflected, and then raising his head,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: if you will come with me in my cab, he said,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: I think I can take you to his house. It
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: was by this time about nine in the morning, and
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: the first fog of the season. A great chocolate covered
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: and routing these in battle of vapors, so that as
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: the cab crawled from street to street, mister Utterson beheld
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: a marvelous number of degrees of hues of twilight. For
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: here it would be dark like the back end of evening,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: like the light of some strange conflagration. And here, for
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: a moment the fog would be quite broken up, and
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: swirling wreaths. The dismal quarter of Soho scene, under these
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: changing glimpses, with its muddy ways and slatternly passages, and
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: its lamps which had never been extinguished or had been
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: kindled afresh to combat. This mournful reinvasion of darkness seemed
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: in the lawyer's eyes like a district of some city
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: in a nightmare. The thoughts of his mind, besides, were
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: of the gloomiest dye, And when he glanced at the
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: of that terror of the law and the law's officers,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: which may at times assail the most honest. As the
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: a little and showed them a dingy street, a gin palace,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: a low French eating house, a shop for the retail
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: of penny numbers and two penny salads, many ragged children
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: nationalities passing out key in hand to have a morning glass.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: And the next moment the fog settled down again upon
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: that part as brown as umber, and cut him off
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: from his blackguardedly surroundings. This was the home of Henry
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Juckle's favorite, a man who was heir to a quarter
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: of a million sterling. And ivory faced and overy haired
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: old woman opened the door. She had an evil face
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: smoothed by hypocrisy, but her manners were excellent. Yes, she said,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: this was mister Hydes, but he was not at home.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: He had been in that night very late, but he
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: had gone away again in less than an hour. There
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: was nothing strange in that his habits were very irregular,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: and he was often absent. For instance, it was nearly
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: two months since she had seen him till yesterday. Very well, then,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: we wish to see his rooms said the lawyer, and
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: then the woman began to declare it was impossible. I
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: had better tell you who this person is. He added,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: this is Inspector Newcombe of Scotland Yard. A flash of
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: odious joy appeared upon the woman's face. Ah, said she,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: he is in trouble. What has he done? Mister Utterson
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: and the inspector exchanged glances. He don't seem a very
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: popular character, observed the latter. And now, my good woman,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: just let me and this gentleman have a look about us.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: In the whole extent of the house, which but for
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: the old woman, remained otherwise empty, mister Hyde had only
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: used a couple of rooms, but these were furnished with
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: luxury and good taste. A closet was filled with wine,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: the plate was of silver, the napery elegant. A good
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: picture hung upon the walls, a gift, as Utterson supposed,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: from Henry Jekyll, who was much of a connoisseur, and
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: the carpets were of many piles and agreeable in color.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: At this moment, however, the rooms for every mark of
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: having been recently and hurriedly ransacked. Clothes lay about the
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: floor with their pockets inside out locked fast drawers stood open,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: and on the hearth there lay a pile of gray ashes,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: as though many papers had been burned from these embers.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: The inspector disinterred the butt end of a green check book,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: which had resisted the action of the fire. The other
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: half of the stick was found behind the door, and
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: as this clenched his suspicions, the officer declared himself delighted.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: A visit to the bank, where several thousand pounds were
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: found to be lying to the murderer's credit, completed his gratification.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: You may depend upon it, sir, he told mister Arterson,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: I have him in my hand. He must have lost
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: his head or he never would have left the stick,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: or above all, burned the check book. Why money is
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: life to the man. We have nothing to do but
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: wait for him at the bank and get out the handbills.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: This last, however, was not so easy of accomplishment, for
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: mister Hyde had numbered few familiars. Even the master of
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: the servant maid had only seen him twice. His family
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: could nowhere be traced. He had never been photographed, and
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: the few who could describe him differed widely. As common
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: observer's will only on one point were they agreed, and
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: that was the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: the fugitive impressed his beholders. End of chapter four, Chapter
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: five of The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson. This LibriVox recording is in
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: the public domain. Chapter five incident of the letter. It
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: was late in the afternoon when mister Utterson found his
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: way to Doctor Jekyll's door, where he was at once
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: admitted by pool and carried down by the kitchen offices
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: and across a yard which had once been a garden,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: or dissecting rooms. The doctor had bought the house from
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: the heirs of a celebrated surgeon, and his own tape,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: being rather chemical than anatomical, had changed the destination of
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: the block at the bottom of the garden. It was
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: the first time that the lawyer had been received in
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: that part of his friend's quarters, and he eyed the dingy,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: sense of strangeness as he crossed the theater. Once crowded
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: with eager students, and now lying gaunt and silent, the
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: through the foggy couple. At the further end a flight
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: of stairs mounted to a door covered with red baize,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: and through this mister Utterson was at last received into
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: the doctor's cabinet. It was a large room, fitted round
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: with glass presses, furnished, among other things, with a cheval
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: glass and a business table, and looking out upon the
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: court by three dusty windows barred with iron. The fire
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: burned in the grate. A lamp was set lighted on
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: the chimney itself. For even in the houses, the fog
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: began to lie thickly, and there, close up to the
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: warmth sat Doctor Jackal, looking deathly sick. He did not
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice. And
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: now said mister Otterson. As soon as Poole had left them,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: you have heard the news. The doctor shuddered. They were
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: crying it in the square. He said, I heard them
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: in my dining room. One word, said the lawyer. Carew
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: was my client, but so are you, and I want
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: to know what I am doing. You have not been
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: mad enough to hide this fellow, Utterson. I swear to God,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: cried the doctor. I swear to God I will never
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: set eyes on him again. I bind my honor to
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: you that I am done with him in this world.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: It is all at an end. And indeed he does
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: not want my help. You do not know him as
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: I do. He is safe. He is quite safe, mark
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: my words. He will never more be heard of. The
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: lawyer listened gloomily. He did not like his friend's feverish manner.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: You seem pretty sure of him, said he, And for
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: your sake, I hope you may be right. If it
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: came to a trial, your name might appear. I am
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: quite sure of him, replied Juckal. I have grounds for
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: certainty that I cannot share with any one. But there
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: is one thing on which you may advise me. I have.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I have received a letter, and I am at a
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: loss whether I should show it to the police. I
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: should like to leave it in your hands, Utterson, you
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: would judge wisely. I am sure I have so great
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: a trust in you. You fear. I suppose that it
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: might lead to his detection, asked the lawyer. No, said
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: the other. I cannot say that I care what becomes
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: of Hide. I am quite done with him. I was
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: thinking of my own character, which this hateful business has
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: rather exposed. Hutterson ruminated. Awhile he was surprised at his
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: friend's selfishness, and yet relieved by it, well said he
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: at last let me see the letter. The letter was
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: written in an odd upright hand, and signed Edward Hyde.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: And it signified briefly enough that the writer's benefactor, doctor Jekyll,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: whom he had longed so unworthily repaid for a thousand generosities,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: need labor, under no alarm for his safety, as he
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: had means of escape on which he placed a sure dependence.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: The lawyer liked this letter well enough. It put a
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: better color on the intimacy than he had looked for,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: and he blamed himself for some of his past suspicions.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Have you the envelope, he asked, I burned it, replied
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Jackal before I thought what I was about. But it
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: bore no postmark. The note was handed in. Shall I
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: keep this and sleep upon it? Asked Utterson, I wish
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: you to judge for me entirely was the reply, I
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: have lost confidence in myself. Well I shall consider, returned
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: the lawyer. And now one word more. It was Hide
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: who dictated the terms in your will. About that disappearance,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: the doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness. He
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: shut his mouth tight and nodded. I knew it, said Utterson.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: He meant to murder you. You had a fine escape.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: I have had what is far more to the purpose,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: returned the doctor solemnly, I have had a less Oh God, Arson,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: what a lesson I have had, And he covered his
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: face for a moment with his hands. On his way out,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: the lawyer stopped and had a word or two with Pool.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: By the bye, said he there was a letter handed
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: in today. What was the messenger like? But Pool was
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: positive nothing had come except by post, and only circulars.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: At that he added, this news sent off the visitor,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: with his fears renewed. Plainly the letter had come by
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: the laboratory door. Possibly indeed it had been written in
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: the cabinet, and if that were so, it must be
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: differently judged and handled with the more caution. The newsboys
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: as he went were crying themselves along the footways special audition,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: shocking murder of an mp that was the funeral oration
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: of one friend and client, And he could not help
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal. It
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: was at least a ticklish decision that he had to make,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: and self reliant as he was by habit, he began
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: to cherish a longing for advice. It was not to
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: be had directly, but perhaps he thought it might be
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: fished for presently. After he sat on one side of
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: his own hearth with mister Guest his head clerk upon
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles, And through the muffle
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: with a sound as of a mighty wind. But the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: room was gay with firelight in the bottle. The ascids
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: were long ago resolved. The imperial dye has softened with time,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: as the color grows rich in stained windows, and the
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards was ready
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London. Insensibly,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: the lawyer melted. There was no man from whom he
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: kept fewer secrets than mister Guest, and he was not
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: always sure that he kept as many as he meant.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: Guests had often been on business to the doctor's, he
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: knew pool. He could scarcely have failed to hear. Of
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: mister Hyge's familiarity about the house, he might draw conclusions.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Was it not as well, then that he should see
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: a letter which put that mystery to write? And above all,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: since Guest, being a great student and critic of handwriting,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: would consider the step natural and obliging. The clerk, besides,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: was a man of counsel. He could scarce read so
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: strange a document without dropping a remark, and by that
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: remark mister Utterson might shape his future course. This is
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: a sad business about Sir Danvers, He said, yes, sir, indeed,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: it has elicited a great deal of public feeling, returned Guest.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: The man, of course, was mad. I should like to
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: hear your views on that, replied Utterson. I have a
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: document here in his handwriting. It is between ourselves, for
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: I scarce know what to do about it. It is
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: an ugly business at the best. But there it is
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: quite in your way, a murderer's autograph. Guest's eyes brightened,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: and he sat down at once and studied it with passion. No, sir,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: he said, not mad, but it is an odd hand
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: and by all accounts, a very odd writer, added the lawyer.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Just then the servant entered with a note. Is that
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: from doctor Juckll? Sir? Inquired the clerk. I thought I
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: knew the writing anything private, mister Utterson, only an invitation
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: to dinner. Why do you want to see it? One moment?
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: I thank you, sir, and the clerk laid the two
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: sheets of paper alongside and sensulously compared their contents. Thank you, sir,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: he said, at last, returning both it's a very interesting autograph.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: There was a pause during which mister Utterson struggled with himself.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Why did you compare them? Guessed? He inquired, suddenly, well, sir,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: returned the clerk. There's a rather singular resemblance. The two
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: hands are in many points identical, only differently sloped. Rather quaint,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: said Utterson. It is as you say, rather quaint, returned guest.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't speak of this note, you know, said the master. No, sir,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: said the clerk. I understand. But no sooner was mister
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Utterson alone that night than he locked the note into
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: his safe, where it reposed from that time forward. What
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: he thought Henry Jacal of Forge for a murderer, and
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: his blood ran cold in his veins end of chapter five,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: chapter six of The Strange Case of Doctor Jackal and
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Mister Hyde by Robert Lewis Stephenson. This LibriVox recording is
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Chapter six incident of Doctor Lanyon.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Time ran on. Thousands of pounds loans were offered in
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: reward for the death of Sir Danvers were resented as
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: a public inquiry, But mister Hyde had disappeared out of
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: the kin of the police, as though he had never existed.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: tales came out of the man's cruelty at once so
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: callous and violent, of his vile life, of his strange associates,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: but of his present whereabouts not a whisper from the
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: time he had left the house in Soho on the
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out, And gradually,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: as time drew on, mister Utterson began to recover from
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: the hotness of his alarm and to grow more a
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: quiet with himself. The death of Sir Danvers was, to
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: his way of thinking, more than paid for by the
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: disappearance of mister Hyde. But that evil influence had been withdrawn.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: A new life began for Doctor Juckyll. He came out
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: of his seclusion, renewed relations with his friends, became once
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: more their familiar guest and entertainer. And whilst he had
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: always been known for charities, he was now no less
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: distinguished for religion. He was busy, he was much in
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: the open air. He did good. His face seemed to
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: open and brighten, as if with an inward consciousness of service.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: For more than two months the doctor was at peace.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: On the eighth of January, Utterson had dined at the
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: doctor's with a small party. Lanyon had been there, and
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: the face of the host had looked from one to
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: the other, as in the old days when the trio
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: were inseparable friends. On the twelfth, and again on the fourteenth,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: the door was shut against the lawyer. The doctor was
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: confined to the house, Poole said, and saw no one.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: On the fifteenth he tried again and was again refused.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: And having now been used for the last two months
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: to see his friend almost daily, he found this return
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: of solitude to weigh upon his spirits. The fifth night
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: he had in guests to dine with him, and the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: sixth he betook himself to doctor Lanyon's. There at least
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: he was not denied admittance, But when he came in,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: he was shocked at the change which had taken place
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: in the doctor's appearance. He had his death warrant written
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: legibly upon his face. The rosy man had grown pale,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: his flesh had fallen away. He was visibly balder and older.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: And yet it was not so much these tokens of
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: swift physical decay that arrested the lawyer's notice as a
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: to testify to some deep seated terror of the mind.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: It was unlikely that the doctor should fear death, and
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: yet that was what Utterson was tempted to suspect. Yes,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: he thought, he is a doctor. He must know his
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: own state, and that his days are counted, and the
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: knowledge is more than he can bear. And yet, when
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Utterson remarked on his ill looks, it was with an
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: air of great firmness that Lanyon declared himself a doomed man.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: I have had a shock, he said, and I shall
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: never recover. It is a question of weeks. Well. Life
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: has been pleasant. I liked it, yes, sir, I used
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: to like it. I sometimes think if we knew all,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: we should be more glad to get away. Jackal is ill, too,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: observed Utterson. Have you seen him? But Lanyon's face changed,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: and he held up a trembling hand. I wish to
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: see or hear no more of doctor Jekyll, he said,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: in a loud, unsteady voice. I am right done with
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: that person, and I beg that you will spare me
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: any allusion to one whom I regard as dead. Tut tut,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: said mister Utterson, and then, after a considerable pause, can't
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: I do anything? He inquired, We are three very old friends, Lanion,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: we shall not live to make others. Nothing can be done,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: returned Lanion, ask himself. He will not see me, said
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: the lawyer. I am not surprised at that was the reply.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Some day, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: come to learn the right and wrong of this. I
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: cannot tell you. And in the meantime, if you can
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: sit and talk with me of other things, for God's sake,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: stay and do so. But if you cannot keep clear
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: of this accursed topic, then in God's names, go, for
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: I cannot bear it. As soon as he got home,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Artison sat down and wrote to Juckal, complaining of his
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: exclusion from the house and asking the cause of this
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: unhappy break with Lanyon, and the next day brought him
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: a long answer, often very pathetically worded and sometimes darkly mysterious.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: In drift, the quarrel with Lanyon was incurable. I do
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: not blame our old friend, Juckll wrote, but I share
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: his view that we must never meet. I mean from
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Hisforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion. You must
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship if
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: my door is often shut even to you, you must
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: suffer me to go my own dark way. I have
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: am the chief of sufferers. Also, I cannot think that
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so unmanning.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: And you can do but one thing, Utterson, to lighten
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: this destiny, and that is to respect my silence. Otterson
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: was amazed. The dark influence of hide had been withdrawn.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: The doctor had returned to his old tasks and amenities.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: A week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: of a cheerful end and honored age. And now in
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: a moment, friendship and peace of mind, and the whole
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: tenor of life were wrecked. So great and unprepared. A
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: change pointed to madness. But in view of Lanion's manner
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: and words, there must lie for it some deeper ground.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: A week afterwards, doctor Lanyon took to his bed, and
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: in something less than a fortnight he was dead. The
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: night after the funeral at which he had been sadly affected,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Otterson locked the door of his business room and sitting
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: there by the light of a melancholy candle, drew out
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: and set before him an envelope addressed by the hand
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: and sealed with the seal of his dead friend private
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: for the hands of G. J. Utterson alone, and in
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: the case of his predecease, to be destroyed unread. So
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: it was emphatically superscribed, and the lawyer dreaded to behold
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: the contents. I have buried one friend to day he thought,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: what if this should cost me another? And then he
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: condemned the fear as a disloyalty, and broke the seal.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: Within there was another enclosure, like wise sealed and marked
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: upon the cover as not to be opened until the
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: death are disappearance of doctor Henry Chuckle. Otterson could not
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: trust his eyes. Yet it was disappearance here again, as
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: in the mad will, which he had long ago restored
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: to its author, here again with the idea of a disappearance,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: and the name of Henry Chuckle bracketed. But in the
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: will the idea had sprung from the sinister suggestion of
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: the man hide. It was set there with a purpose
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: all too plain and horrible, written by the hand of Lanyon.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: What should it mean, a great curiosity came on the
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: trustee to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: the bottom of these mysteries. But professional honor and faith
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: to his dead friend were stringent obligations, and the packet
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: slept in the inmost corner of his private safe. It
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: And it may be doubted if from that day forth
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: Utterson desired the society of his surviving friend with the
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: same eagerness. He thought of him kindly, but his thoughts
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: were disquieted and fearful. He went to call, indeed, but
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: he was perhaps relieved to be denied admittance. Perhaps in
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: his heart he preferred to speak with Pool upon the
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: doorstep and surrounded by the air and sounds of the
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: open city, rather than to be admitted into that house
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: of voluntary bondage and to sit and speak with its
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: inscrutable recluse. Pool had indeed no very pleasant news to communicate.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: The doctor, it appeared, now more than ever, confined himself
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: to the cabinet over the laboratory, where he would sometimes
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: even sleep. He was out of spirits. He had grown
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: very silent. He did not read, it seems as if
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: he had something on his mind. Arterison became so used
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: to the unvarying character of these reports that he fell
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: off little by little in the frequency of his visits.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: End of chapter six, Chapter seven of The Strange Case
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: This librevox recording is in the public domain. Chapter seven
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: Incident at the Window. It chanced on Sunday when mister
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: Utterson was on his usual walk with mister Enfield, that
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: their way lay once again through the Bye Street, and
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: that when they came in front of the door, both
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: stopped to gaze on it. Well, said Enfield, that stories
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: at an end. At least we shall never see more
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: of mister Hyde. I hope not, said Utterson. Did I
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: ever tell you that I once saw him and share
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: your feeling of repulsion? It's impossible to do the one
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: without the other, returned Enfield. And by the way, what
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: an ass you must have thought me not to know
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: that this was a back way to doctor Jackals. It
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: was partly your own fault that I found it out,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: even when I did so. You found it out, did you,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: said Artison? But if that be so, we may step
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: into the court and take a look at the windows.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: To tell you the truth. I am uneasy about poor Juckal,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: and even outside I feel as if the presence of
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: a friend might do him good. The court was very
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: although the sky high up overhead was still bright with sunset.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: The middle one of the three windows was halfway open,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: and sitting close beside it, taking the air with an
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: infinite sadness of men like some disconsolate prisoner. Ottison saw
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: doctor Chuckle. What Juckal, he cried, I trust you are better.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: I am very low, Utterson replied the doctor, drearily, very low.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: It will not last long. Thank god, you stay too
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: much indoors, said the lawyer. You should be out whipping
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: up the circulation like mister Enfield and me. This is
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: my cousin, mister Enfield. Doctor Juckle, come now, get your
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: hat and take a quick turn with us. Ah, you
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: are very good, sighed the other. I should like to
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: very much, But no, no, no, it is quite impossible.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: I dare not. But indeed, Utterson, I am very glad
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: to see you. This is really a great pleasure. I
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: would ask you and mister Enfield up, But the place
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: is really not fit. Why, then, said the lawyer, good naturedly.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: The best thing we can do is to stay down
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: here and speak with you from where we are. That
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: is just what I was about to venture to propose,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: returned the doctor with a smile. But the words were
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: hardly uttered before the smile was struck out of his
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: and despair as froze the very blood of the two
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: gentlemen below. They sighed but for a glimpse, for the
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: window was instantly thrust down. But that glimpse had been sufficient,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: and they turned and left the court without a word.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: In silence too, they traversed the by street, and it
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: was not until they had come into a neighboring thoroughfare,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: where even upon a Sunday, there were still some stirrings
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: of life. Then mister Utterson at last turned and looked
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: at his companion. They were both pale, and there was
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: an answering horror in their eyes. God forgive us, God
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: forgive us, said mister Utterson, But mister Enfield only nodded
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: his head very seriously and walked on once more in silence.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: End of chapter seven, Chapter eight of The Strange Case
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: of Doctor Jackall and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: This liber vox recording is in the public domain. Chapter
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: eight The Last Night. Mister Utterson was sitting by his
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: fireside one evening after dinner when he was surprised to
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: receive a visit from Poole. Bless me, Poole, what brings
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: you here? He cried, and then, taking a second look
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: at him, what ails you? He asked? Is the doctor ill?
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: Mister Utterson said the man, there is something wrong. Take
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: a seat, and here is a glass of wine for you,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: said the lawyer. Now take your time and tell me
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: plainly what you want. You know the doctor's ways, sir,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: replied Poole, And how he shuts himself up. Well he's
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: shut up again in the cabinet. And I don't like it, Sir.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: I wish I may die if I like it. Mister Utterson, Sir,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid now, my good man, said the lawyer. Be explicit.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: What are you afraid of? I've been afraid for about
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: a week, returned Poole doggedly, disregarding the question, and I
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: can bear it no more. The man's appearance I amply
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: bore out his words. His manner was altered for the worse,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: And except for the moment when he had first announced
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: his terror, he had not once looked the lawyer in
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: the face. Even now he sat with a glass of
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: wine untasted on his knee and his eyes directed to
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: a corner of the floor. I could bear it no more,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: he repeated, Come, said the lawyer. I see you have
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: some good reason. Pool, I see there is something seriously
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: of this. Try to tell me what it is. I
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: think there's been foul play, said Poole hoarsely. Foul play,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: cried the lawyer, a good deal frightened and rather inclined
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: to be irritated in consequence, Oh what foul play? What
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: does the man mean? I daren't say, sir, was the reply.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: But will you come along with me and see for yourself.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: Mister Utterson's only answer was to rise and get his
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: hat and greatcoat. But he observed with wonder the greatness
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: of the relief that appeared upon the butler's face, and
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: perhaps with no less that the wine was still untasted
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: when he set it down to follow. It was a wild, cold,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: seasonable night of March, with a pale moon lying on
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: her back as though the wind had tilted her, and
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: flying a wrack of the most diaphanous and lowny texture.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: The wind made talking difficult and flucked the blood into
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: the face. It seemed to have swept the streets unusually
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: bare of passengers. Besides, for mister Utterson thought he had
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: never seen that part of London so deserted. He could
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: have wished it otherwise. Never in his life had he
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: been conscious of so sharp a wish to see and
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: touch his fellow creatures. For struggle as he might, there
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: was borne in upon his mind a crushing anticipation of calamity.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: The square, when they got there, was full of wind
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: and dust, and the thin trees in the garden were
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: lashing themselves along the railing. Pool, who had kept all
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: the way a pace or two ahead, now pulled up
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the pavement, and, in spite of
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: the biting weather, took off his hat and mopped his
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: brow with a red pocket handkerchief. But for all the
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: hurry of his coming, these were not the dews of
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: exertion that he wiped away, but the moisture of some
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: strangling anguish for his face was white, and his voice
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: when he spoke, harsh and broken. Well, sir, he said,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: here we are, and God grant there be nothing wrong, Amen, Pool,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: said the lawyer. Thereupon the servant knocked in a very
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: guarded manner. The door was opened on the chain. A
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: voice asked from within, is that you Poole? It's all right,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: said Poole. Opened the door the hall. When they entered
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: it was brightly lighted up. The fire was built high,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: and about the hearth the whold of the servants, men
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: and women stood huddled together like a flock of sheep.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: At the sight of mister Utterson, the housemaid broke into
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: hysterical whimpering, and the cook, crying out, bless God is
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson, ran forward as if to take him in
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: her arms. What what are you all here, said the lawyer. Peevishly,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: very irregular, very unseemly. Your master would be far from pleased.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: They are all afraid, said Poole. Blank silence followed, no
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: one protesting. Only the maid lifted her voice and now
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: wept loudly. Hold your tongue, Poole said, to her with
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: a ferocity of accent that testified to his own jangled nerves.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: And indeed, when the girl had so suddenly raised the
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: note of her lamentation, they had all started and turned
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: toward the inner door with faces of dreadful expectation. And
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: now continued the butler, addressing the knife boy, reach me
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: a candle, and we'll get this through hands at once.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: And then he begged mister Utterson to follow him, and
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: led the way to the back garden. Now, sir, said
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: he you come as gently as you can. I want
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: you to hear, and I don't want you to be heard.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: And see here, sir, if by any chance he was
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: to ask you in, don't go. Mister Utterson's nerves at
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: this on look for termination gave a jerk that nearly
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: threw him from his balance, But he recollected his courage
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: and followed the butler into the laboratory building, through the
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: surgical theater with its lumber of crates and bottles, to
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: the foot of the stair. Here Poull motioned him to
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: stand on one side and listen, and while he himself
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: setting down the candle and making a great and obvious
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: call on his resolution, mounted the steps and knocked with
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: a somewhat uncertain hand on the red baize of the
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: cabinet door. Mister Otterson, Sir, asking to see you, he called,
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: and even as he did so, once more violently signed
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: to the lawyer to give ear. A voice answered from within.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: Tell him I cannot see anyone, it said, complainingly. Thank you, sir,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: said Poole, with a note of something like triumph in
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: his voice, and taking up his candle, he led mister
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: Utterson back across the yard and into the great kitchen,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: where the fire was out and the beetles were leaping
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: on the floor. Sir, he sat, looking mister Utterson in
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: the eyes. Was that my master's voice? It seems much changed,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: replied the lawyer, very pale, but giving look for look changed. Well, yes,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: I think so, said the butler. Have I been twenty
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: years in this man's house to be deceived about his voice? No, Sir,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: Master's made away with. He was made away with eight
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: days ago when we heard him cry out upon the
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: name of God. And who's in there instead of him?
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: And why it stays there is a thing that cries
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: to heaven, mister Utterson. This is a very strange tale. Pool.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: This is rather a wild tale, my man, said mister Utterson,
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: biting his finger. Suppose it were as you suppose, suppose
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: doctor Juckyll to have been well murdered. What could induce
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: the murderer to stay? That won't hold water. It doesn't
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: commend itself to reason. Well, mister Utterson, you are a
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: hard man to satisfy. But I'll do it yet, said Poole.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: All this last week you must know him or it,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: whatever it is that lives in that cabinet, has been
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: crying night and day for some sort of medicine and
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: cannot get it to his mind. It was something his way,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: the master's, that is, to write his orders on a
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: sheet of paper and throw it on the stair. We've
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: had nothing else this past week, nothing but papers and
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: a closed door, and the very meals left there to
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: be smuggled in when nobody was looking well, sir. Every day, aye,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: and twice and thrice in the same day. There have
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: been orders and complaints, and I have been sent flying
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: to all the wholesale chemists in town. Every time I
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: brought the stuff back, there would be another paper telling
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: me to return it because it was not pure and
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: another order to a different firm. This strog has wanted
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: bitter bad sir, whatever for have you any of these papers,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: asked mister Otterson. Poole felt in his pot, had handed
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: out a crumpled note which the lawyer, bending nearer to
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: the candle, carefully examined its contents. Ran Thus, Doctor Juckle
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: presents his compliments to Messrs Maw. He assures them that
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: their last sample is impure and quite useless for his
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: present purpose. In the year eighteen blank, doctor j purchased
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: a somewhat large quantity from Messrs m He now begs
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: them to search with most sedulous care, and should any
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: of the same quality be left forward it to him
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: at once? Expense is no consideration. The importance of this
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: to doctor j can hardly be exaggerated. So far the
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: letter had run composedly enough, but here, with a sudden
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: For God's sake, he added, find me some of the
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: old This is a strange note, said mister Utterson, and
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: then sharply, how do you come to have it open?
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: The man at Maw's was main angry, sir, and he
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: threw it back in me like so much dirt, returned Poole.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: This is unquestionably the doctor's hand, do you know, resumed
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: the lawyer. I thought it looked like it, said the servant,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: rather sulkily, and then with another voice. But what matters
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: hand of right, he said, I've seen him, seen him,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: repeated mister Utterson. Well that's it, said Poole. It was
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: this way. I came suddenly into the theater from the garden.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: It seems he had slipped out to look for this
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: drug or whatever it is. For The cabinet door was open,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: and there he was at the far into the room,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: digging among the crates. He looked up when I came in,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: gave a kind of cry, and whipped up stairs into
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: saw him, But the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: if that was my master, why had he a mask
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: upon his face? If it was my master, why did
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: he cry out like a rat and run from me?
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: I have served him long enough. And then the man
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: paused and passed his hand over his face. These are
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: all very strange circumstances, said mister Utterson. But I think
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: I begin to see daylight. Your masterpool is plainly seized
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: with one of those melodies that both torture and deform
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: the sufferer. Hence for aught, I know, the alteration of
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: his voice, hence the mask, and the avoidance of his friends,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: hence his eagerness to find this drug, by means of
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: which the poor soul retains some hope of ultimate recovery.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: God grant that he be not deceived. There is my explanation.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: It is sad and pool ay and appalling to consider,
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: but it is plain and natural, hangs well together and
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: delivers us from all exorbitant alarms. Sir, said the butler,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: turning to a sort of muttled pallor. That thing was
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: not my master, and there's the truth. My master here,
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: he looked round him and began to whisper. Is a tall,
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: fine build of a man, and this was more of
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: a dwarf. Utterson attempted to protest. Oh, sir, cried poole.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: Do you think I do not know my master? After
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: twenty years? Do you think I do not know where
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: his head comes to in the cabinet door where I
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: saw him every morning of my life? No, sir, that
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: thing and the mask was never doctor Juckll. God knows
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: what it was, but it was never doctor Juckll. And
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: it is the belief of my heart that there was
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: murder done, Pool, replied the lawyer. If you say that,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: it will become my duty to make certain Much as
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: I desire to spare your master's feelings, much as I
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: am puzzled by this note, which seems to prove him
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: to be still alive, I shall consider it my duty
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: to break in that door. Ah, mister Utterson, that's talking,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: cried the butler. And now comes the second question, resumed Utterson.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: Who is going to do it? Why you and me, sir,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: was the undaunted reply. That's very well, said, returned the lawyer.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: And whatever comes of it, I shall make it my
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: business to see you are no loser. There is an
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: axe in the theater, continued Poole, and you might take
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: the kitchen poker for yourself. The lawyer took that rude
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: but weighty instrument into his hand and balanced it. Do
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: you know, Poole, he said, looking up, that you and
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: I are about to place ourselves in a position of
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: some peril. You may say so, sir. Indeed, returned the butler.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: It is well, then that we should be, Frank, said
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: the other. We both think more than we have said.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: Let us make a clean breast this masked figure that
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: you saw, did you recognize it? Well, sir? It went
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: so quick and the creature was so doubled up that
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: I could hardly swear to that was the answer. But
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: if you mean was it mister Hyde, why yes, I
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: think it was. You see, it was much of the
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: same bigness, and it had the same quick light away
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: with it. And then who else could have got in
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: by the laboratory door. You have not forgotten, sir, that
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: at the time of the murder he had still the
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: key with him. But that's not all I don't know,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson. If you ever met this mister Hyde, yes,
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: said the lawyer, I once spoke with him, then you
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: must know as well as the rest of us, that
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: there was something queer about that gentleman, something that gave
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: a man a turn. I don't know rightly how to
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: say it, sir, beyond this that you felt it in
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: your marrow, kind of cold and thin. Quite so, sir,
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: returned Poole. Well, when that masked thing like a monkey
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: jumped from among the chemicals and whipped into the cabinet.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: It went down my spine like ice. Oh. I know
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: it's not evidence, mister Utterson. I'm book learned enough for that.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: But a man has his feelings, and I give you
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: my Bible word. It was mister Hyde. Hi, Hi, said
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: the lawyer. My fear is inclined to the same point evil.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: I fear found it. Evil was sure to come of
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: that connection. I truly I believe you. I believe poor
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: Harry is killed, and I believe his murderer, for what
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: purpose God alone can tell, is still lurking in his
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: victim's room. Well, let our name be vengeance. Call Bradshaw.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: The footman came at the summons, very white and nervous.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: Pull yourself together, Bradshaw, said the lawyer. This suspense, I know,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: is telling upon all of you. But it is now
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: our intention to make an end of it. Pull here,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: and I are going to force our way into the cabinet.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: If all is well, my shoulders are broad enough to
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: bear the blame. Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: and the boy must go round the corner with a
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: pair of good sticks and take your post at the
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: laboratory door. We give you ten minutes to get to
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: your patience. As Bradshaw left, the lawyer looked at his watch.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: And now, Poole, let us get two hours, he said, and,
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: taking the poker under his arm, led the way into
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: the yard. The scud had banked over the moon, and
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: it was now quite dark. The wind, which only broke
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: in puffs and drafts into that deep well of building,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: tossed the light of the candle to and fro about
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: their steps until they came into the shelter of the theater,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: where they sat down silently to wait. London hummed solemnly
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: all around, but nearer hand, the stillness was only broken
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: by the sounds of a footfall moving to and fro
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: along the cabinet floor. So it will walk all day, sir,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: whispered Poole, Hi, and the better part of the night.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: Only when a new sample comes from the chemist. There's
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: a bit of a break. Ah. It's an ill conscience, then,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: such an enemy to rest, Ah, Sir, there's blood foully
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: shed in every step of it. But hark again a
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: little closer. Put your heart to your ears, mister Utterson,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: and tell me is that the doctor's foot. The steps
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing. For all
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: they went so slowly. It was different, indeed from the
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: heavy creaking tread of Henry Chuckle. Utterson sighed, Is there
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: never anything else? He asked. Poole nodded once, he said,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: once I heard it weeping, weeping? How that, said the lawyer,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: conscious of a sudden chill of horror. Weeping like a
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: woman or a lost soul, said the butler. I came
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: away with that upon my heart. That I could have
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: wept too. But now the ten minutes drew to an end.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: Poole disintered the from under a stack of packing straw.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: The candle was set upon the nearest table to light
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: them to the attack, and they drew near, with bated breath,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: to where that patient foot was still going up and down,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: up and down in the quiet of the night. Jackal
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: cried Utterson with a loud voice. I demand to see you.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: He paused a moment, but there came no reply. I
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: give you fair warning. Our suspicions are aroused, and I
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: must and shall see you, he resumed. If not by
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: fair means, then by foul. If not by your consent,
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: then by brute force, Utterson said the voice, for God's sake,
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: have mercy. Aye, that's not Jackal's voice. It's hides, cried Utterson.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: Down with the door, poll Pool swung the axe over
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: his shoulder. The blow shook the building, and the red
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: baized door leaped against the lock and hinges. A dismal screech,
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet. Up
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: went the axe again and again. The panels crashed, and
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: the frame bounded four times. The blow fell, but the
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: wood was tough, and the fittings were of excellent workmanship.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: It was not until the fifth that the lock burst,
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: and the wreck of the door fell inwards on the carpet.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: The besiegers, appalled at their own riot and the stillness
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: that had succeeded, stood back a little and peered in.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: There lay the cabinet before their eyes, in the quiet lamplight,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: a good fire glowing and chattering on the hearth, the
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: kettle singing its thin strain. A drawer or two open
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: papers neatly set forth on the business table, and nearer
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: the fire, the things laid out for tea the quietest room.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: You would have said, end, but for the glazed presses
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: full of chemicals. The most commonplace that night in London.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: Right in the middle, there lay the body of a man,
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: sorely contorted and still twitching. They drew near on tiptoe,
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: turned it on its back, and beheld the face of
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: Edward Hyde. He was dressed in clothes far too large
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: for him, clothes of the doctor's bigness. The cords of
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: his face still moved with a semblance of life, but
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: life was quite gone. And by the crushed vial in
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: his hand, and the strong smell of kernels that hung
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: upon the air, artisan knew that he was looking on
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: the body of a self destroyer. We have come too late,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: he said sternly. Whether to save or punish hide is
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: gone to his account, and it only remains for us
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: to find the body of your master. The far greater
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: proportion of the building was occupied by the theater, which
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: filled almost the whole ground story and was lighted from above,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: and by the cabinet, which formed an upper story at
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: one end and looked upon the court. A corridor adjoined
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: the theater to the door on the by street, and
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: with this the cabinet communicated separately by a second flight
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: of stairs. There were besides a few dark closets and
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: a spacious cellar. All these they now thoroughly examined. Each
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: closet needed but a glance, for all were empty, and all,
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: by the dust that fell from their doors, had stood
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: long unopened. The cellar, indeed, was filled with crazy lumber,
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: mostly dating from the times of the surgeon who was
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: Jeckal's predecessor. But even as they opened the door, they
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: were advertised of the uselessness of further search by the
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: fall of a perfect mat of cobweb, which had for
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: years sealed up the entrance. Nowhere was there any trace
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: of Henry Jekyll, dead or alive, pool stamped on the
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: flags of the corridor. He must be buried here, he said,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: hearkening to the sound. Or he may have fled, said Utterson,
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: and he turned to examine the door in the by street.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: It was locked, and lying near by on the flags,
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: they found the key already stained with rust. This does
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: not look like use, observed the lawyer. Use, echoed Poole,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: do you not see, sir, It is broken, much as
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: if a man had stamped on it. Aye, continued Utterson,
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: and the fractures, too, are rusty. The two men looked
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: at each other with a stare. This is beyond me, Pool,
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: said the lawyer. Let us go back to the cabinet.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: They mounted the stairs in silence, and, still with an
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: occasional awe struck glance at the body, proceeded more thoroughly
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: to examine the contents of the cabinet. At one table,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: there were traces of chemical work, various measured heaps of
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: some white salt being laid on glass saucers, as though
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: for an experiment in which the unhappy man had been prevented.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: That is the same drug that I was always bringing him,
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: said Pool, And even as he spoke the kettle with
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: a startling noise boiled over. This brought them to the fireside,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: where the easy chair was drawn cozily up, and the
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: tea things stood ready at the sitter's elbow, the very
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: sugar in the cup. There were several books on a shelf.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: One lay beside the tea things, open, and Ardison was
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: amazed to find it a copy of a pious work
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: for which Jekyl had several times expressed a great esteem,
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: annotated in his own hand. With startling blasphemies. Next, in
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: came to the cheval glass, into whose depths they looked
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: with an involuntary horror. But it was so turned as
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: to show them nothing but the rosy glow playing on
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: the roof, the fire sparkling in a hundred repetitions along
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: the glazed front of the presses, and their own pale
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: and fearful countenances, stooping to look in this glass has
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: seen some strange things, Sir whispered Pool, and surely none
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: stranger than itself, echoed the lawyer in the same tones.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: For what did Jekyl? He caught himself up at the
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: word with a start, and then conquering the weakness. What
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: could Jekyl want with it? He said? You may say that,
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: said Poole. Next they turned to the business table. On
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: the table, among the neat arrays of papers, a large
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: envelope was uppermost and bore in the doctor's hand the
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: name of mister Otterson. The lawyer unsealed it, and several
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: enclosures fell to the floor. The first was a will
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: drawn in the same eccentric terms as the one which
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: he had returned six months before to serve as a
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: testament in case of death, and as a deed of
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: gift and case of disappearance. But in place of the
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: name of Edward Hyde, the lawyer, with indescribable amazement, read
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: the name of Gabriel John Utterson. He looked at Poole,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: then back at the paper, and last of all at
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: the dead malefactor stretched upon the carpet. My head goes round,
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: he said. He has been all these days in possession.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: He had no cause to like me. He must have
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: raged to see himself displaced, and he has not destroyed
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: this document. He caught up the next paper. It was
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: a brief note in the doctor's hand and dated at
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: the top Opoole. The lawyer cried, he was alive, and
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: here this day he cannot have been disposed of in
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: so short a space. He must be still alive. He
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: must have fled, And then why fled? And how? And
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: in that case can we venture to declare this suicide? Oh,
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: we must be careful. I foresee that we may yet
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: involve your master in some dire catastrophe. Why don't you
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: read it, sir, asked Poole, because I fear replied the lawyer, solemnly,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: God grant, I have no cause for it. And with
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: that he brought the paper to his eyes and read,
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: as follows, my dear Utterson. When this shall fall into
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: your hands, I shall have disappeared under what circumstances? I
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: have not the penetration to foresee. But my instinct, in
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: all the circumstances of my nameless situation, tells me that
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: the end is sure and must be early. Go then,
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: and read the first narrative which Lanyon warned me he
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: was to place in your hands. And if you care
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: to hear more, turn to the confession of your unworthy
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: and unhappy friend, Henry Chuckle. There was a third enclosure,
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: asked Utterson. Here, sir, said Poole, and gave into his
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: hands a considerable packet sealed in several places. The lawyer
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: put it in his pocket. I would say nothing of
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: this paper. If your master has fled or is dead,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: we may at least save his credit. It is now
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: ten I must go home and read these documents in quiet,
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: but I shall be back before midnight, when we shall
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: send for the police. They went out, locking the door
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: of the theater behind them, and Utterson once more, leaving
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: the servants gathered about the fire in the hall, shrudged
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: back to his office to read the two narratives in
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: which this mystery was now to be explained. End of
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: chapter eight Chapter nine of The Strange Case of Doctor
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson. This Liebrey
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: Vox recording is in the public domain. Chapter nine, Doctor
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: Lanyon's narrative. On the ninth of January, now four days ago,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: I received by the evening delivery a registered envelope addressed
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: in the hand of my colleague and old school companion,
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: Henry Jeckyll. I was a good deal surprised by this,
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: for we were by no means in the habit of correspondence.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: I had seen the man dined with him, indeed the
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: night before, and I can imagine nothing in our intercourse
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: that should justify formality of registration. The contents increased my wonder,
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: for this is how the letter ran tenth December eighteen blank.
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  Speaker 1: Dear Lanyon, you are one of my oldest friends, and
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: although we may have differed at times on scientific questions,
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: I cannot remember, at least on my side, any break
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: in our affection. There was never a day when if
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: you had said to me, juckal, my life, my honor,
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: my reason depend upon you, I would not have sacrificed
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: my left hand to help you lanyon. My life, my honor,
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: my reason are all at your mercy. If you fail
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: me tonight, I am lost. You might suppose, after this
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: preface that I'm going to ask you for something dishonorable
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: to grant judge for yourself. I want you to postpone
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: all other engagements for tonight. I even if you were
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: summoned to the beds side of an emperor, to take
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: a cab, unless your carriage should be actually at the door,
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: and with this letter in your hand for consultation, to
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: drive straight to my house pool. My butler has his orders.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: You will find him waiting your arrival with a locksmith.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: The door of my cabinet is then to be forced,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: and you are to go in alone, to open the
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: glazed press letter E on the left hand, breaking the
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: lock if it be shut, and to draw out with
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: all its contents as they stand, the fourth drawer from
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: the top, or which is the same thing the third
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: from the bottom. In my extreme distress of mind, I
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: have a morbid feared of misdirecting you. But even if
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: I am in error, you may know the right drawer
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: by its contents, some powders, a vial, and a paper book.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: This drawer I beg of you to carry back with
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: you to Cavendish Square exactly as it stands. That is
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: the first part of the service. Now for the second,
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: you should be back if you set out at once
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: on the receipt of this long before midnight. But I
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: will leave you that amount of margin, not only in
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: the fear of one of those obstacles that can neither
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: be prevented nor foreseen, but because an hour when your
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: servants are in bed is to be preferred for what
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: will then remain to do at midnight? Then I have
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: to ask you to be alone in your consulting room,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: to admit with your own hand into the house a
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: man who will present himself in my name, and to
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: place in his hands the drawer that you will have
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: brought with you from my cabinet. Then you will have
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: played your part and earned my gratitude completely. Five minutes afterwards,
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: if you insist upon an explanation, you will have understood
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: that these arrangements are of capital importance, and that by
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: the neglect of one of them, fantastic as they must appear,
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: you might have charged your conscience with my death or
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: the shipwreck of my reason. Confident as I am that
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: a possibility. Think of me at this hour, in a
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: strange place, laboring under a blackness of distress that no
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: fancy can exaggerate, and yet well aware that if you
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: will but punctually serve me, my trouble will roll away
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: like a story that is told. Serve me, my dear Lanion,
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: and save your friend H. J. P. S. I had
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: already sealed this up when a fresh terror struck upon
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: my soul. It is possible that the post office may
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: fail me, and this this letter will not come into
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: your hands until tomorrow morning. In that case, dear Lenion,
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: do my errand when it shall be most convenient for you,
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: in the course of the day, and once more expect
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: my messenger at midnight. It may then already be too late.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: And if that night passes without event, you will know
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: that you have seen the last of Henry Jekyll. Upon
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: reading of this letter, I made sure my colleague was insane,
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: But till that proved beyond the possibility of doubt, I
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: felt bound to do as he requested. The less I
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: understood of this farrago, the less I was in a
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: position to judge of its importance, and an appeal so
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: worded could not be set aside without a grave responsibility.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: drove straight to Jeckal's house. The butler was awaiting my arrival.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: He had received by the same post as mine a
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: registered letter of instruction, and had sent at once for
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: a locksmith and a carpenter. The tradesmen came when we
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: were yet speaking, and we moved in a body to
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: old Doctor Denman's surgical theater, from which, as you are
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: doubtless aware, Juckal's private cabinet is most conveniently entered. The
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: door was very strong, the lock excellent. The carpenter avowed
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: he would have great trouble and have to do much
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: damage if force were to be used, and the locksmith
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: was near despair. But this last was a handy fellow,
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: and after two hours work the door stood open. The
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: press marked E was unlocked, and I took out the
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: drawer that it filled up with straw and tied in
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: a sheet, and returned with it to Cavendish Square. Here
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: I proceeded to examine its contents. The powdery were neatly
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: enough made up, but not with the nicety of the
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: dispensing chemist, so that it was plain they were of
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: Jekyl's private manufacture. And when I opened one of the rappers,
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: I found what seemed to be a simple crystalline salt
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: of a white color. The vial to which I next
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: turned my attention might have been about half full of
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: a blood red liquor, which was highly pungent to the
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: sense of smell, and seemed to me to contained phosphorus
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: and some volatile ether. At the other ingredients I could
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: make no guess. The book was an ordinary version book
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: and contained little but a series of dates. These covered
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: a period of many years, but I observed that the
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: entries ceased nearly a year ago, and quite abruptly. Here
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: and there a brief remark was appended to a date,
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: usually no more than a single word double, occurring perhaps
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: six times in a total of several hundred. Injuries and
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: once very early in the list, and followed by several
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: marks of exclamation total failure. All this, though it whetted
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: my curiosity, told me little that was definite. Here were
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: a vile of some salt, and the record of a
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: series of experiments that had led, like too many of
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: Jeckell's investigations, to no end of practical usefulness. How could
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: the presence of these articles in my house affect either
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: the honor, the sanity or the life of my flighty colleague.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: If his messenger could go to one place, why could
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: he not go to another? And, even granting some impediment,
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: why was this gentleman to be received by me in secret? Ah.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: The more I reflected, the more convinced I grew that
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: I was dealing with a case of cerebral disease. And
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: though I dismissed my servants to bed iu an old revolver,
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: that I might be found in some posture of self defense,
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: twelve o'clock had scarce rung out over London. Ere the
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: knocker sounded very gently on the door. I went myself
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: to the summons and found a small man crouching against
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: the pillars of the portico. Are you come from, doctor? Jekyll,
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: I asked. He told me yes by a constrained gesture,
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: and when I had bidden him enter, he did not
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: obey me. Without a searching backward glance into the darkness
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: of the square. There was a policeman not far off,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: advancing with his bull's eye open. And at the sight
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: I thought my visitors started and made greater haste. These
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: particulars struck me, I confess disagreeably, And as I followed
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: him into the bright light of the consulting room, I
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: kept my hand ready on my weapon. Here at last
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: I had a chance of clearly seeing him. I had
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: never set eyes on him before, so much was certain.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: He was small, As I have said, I was struck
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: besides with the shocking expression of his face, with his
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: remarkable combination of great muscular activity and great apparent nobility
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: of constitution, and last but not least, with the odd
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: subjective disturbance caused by his neighborhood. This bore some resemblance
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: to incipient rigor, and was accompanied by a marked sinking
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: of the pulse. At the time, I set it down
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: to some idiosyncratic personal distaste, and merely wondered at the
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: acuteness of the symptoms. But I have since had reason
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: nature of man, and to turn on some nobler hinge
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: than the principle of hatred. This person, who had thus
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: what I can own described as a disgustful curiosity, was
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: stressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: person laughable. His clothes, that is to say, although they
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: for him in every measurement, the trousers hanging on his
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground,
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: the waist of the coat below his haunches, and the
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders. Strange to relate this
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: ludicrous accouterment was far from moving me to laughter. Rather,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: as there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: essence of the creature that now faced me, something seizing, surprising,
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: and revolting. This fresh disparity seemed but to fit in
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: with and to reinforce it, so that to my interest
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: in the man's nature and character, there was added a
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: curiosity as to his origin, his life, his fortune, and
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: status in the world. These observations, though they have taken
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: so great a space to be set down in, were
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: yet the work of a few seconds. My visitor was
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: indeed on fire with somber excitement. Have you got it?
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: He cried, have you got it? And so lively was
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: his impatience that he even laid his hand upon my
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: arm and sought to shake me. I put him back
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: conscious at his touch of a certain icy pang along
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: my blood. Come, sir, said I you forget that I
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: have not yet the pleasure of your acquaintance. Be seated,
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: if you please. And I showed him an example, and
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: sat down myself in my customary seat, and with as
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: fair an imitation of my ordinary manner to a patient
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: as the lateness of the hour, the nature of my preoccupations,
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: and the horror I had of my visitor would suffer
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: me to muster. I beg your pardon, Doctor Lennon, he replied,
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: civilly enough, which you say is very well founded. And
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: my impatience has shown his heels to my politeness. I
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: come here at the insistence of your colleague, doctor Henry
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: juckyll On a piece of business of some moment. And
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: I understood he paused and put his hand to his throat,
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: and I could see, in spite of his collected manner,
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: that he was wrestling against the approaches of the hysteria.
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: I understood a drawer here. I took pity on my
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: visitor's suspense, and some perhaps on my own growing curiosity.
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: There it is, sir, said I, pointing to the drawer,
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: where it lay on the floor behind a table and
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: still covered with the sheet. He sprang to it, and
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: then paused and laid his hand upon his heart. I
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: could hear his teeth great with the convulsive action of
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: his jaws, and his face was so ghastly to see that.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: I grew alarmed, both for his life and reason. Compose yourself,
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: said I. He turned a dreadful smile to me, and,
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: as if with the decision of despair, plucked away the sheet.
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: At the sight of the contents, he uttered one loud
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: sob of such immense relief that I sat petrified. And
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: the next moment, in a voice that was already fairly
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: well under control, have you a graduated glass, he asked.
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: I rose from my place with something of an effort,
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: and gave him what he asked. He thanked me with
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: red tincture, and added one of the powders. The mixture,
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: which was at first of a reddish hue, began in
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in color, to
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: effervest audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapor. Suddenly,
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: and at the same moment, the ebulition ceased, and the
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: compound changed to a dark purple, which faded again more
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: slowly to a watery green. My visitor, who had watched
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: these metamorphoses with a keen eye, smiled, sat down the
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: glass upon the table, and then turned and looked upon
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: me with an air of scrutiny, And now said he
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: to settle what remains. Will you be wise? Will you
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: be guided? Will you suffer me to take this glass
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: in my hand and to go forth from your house
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: without further partly? Or has the greed of curiosity too
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: much command of you? Think before you answer, For it
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: shall be done as you decide. As you decide, you
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: shall be left as you were before, and neither richer
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: nor wiser. Unless the sense of service rendered to a
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: man in mortal distress may be counted as a kind
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: of richness of the soul. Or if you shall so
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: prefer to choose a new province of knowledge and new
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: avenues to fame and power, shall be laid open to
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: you here in this room upon the instant, and your
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: unbelief of Satan. Sir, said I, affecting a coolness that
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: I was far from truly possessing. You speak enigmas, and
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: you will perhaps not wonder that I hear you with
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: no very strong impression of belief. But I have gone
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: too far in the way of inexplicable services to pause
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: before I see the end. It is well, replied my
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: visitor Lanyon. You remember your vows. What follows is under
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: the seal of our profession. And now you who have
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: so long been bound to the most narrow and material views,
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: who have derided your superiors. Behold. He put the glass
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: to his lips and drank at one gulp. A cry followed.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: He reeled, staggered, clutched at the table, and held on
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth, and as
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: I looked, there came I thought a change. He seemed
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: to swell. His face became suddenly black, and the features
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: seemed to melt and alter. And the next moment I
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the walls,
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: my arms raised to shield me from that prodigy. My
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: mind submerged in terror. Oh God, I screamed, and Oh God,
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: again and again, for there before my eyes, pale and shaken,
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: like a man restored from death, there stood rejecal what
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: he told me. In the next hour, I cannot bring
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: my mind to set on paper. I saw what I saw.
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it.
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: And yet now, when that sight has faded from my eyes,
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer.
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: My life is shaken to its roots. Sleep has left me.
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: The deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: the day and night. And I feel that my days
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: are numbered, and that I must die. And yet I
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: shall die incredulous as for the moral turpitude of that
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence. I
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: cannot even in memory dwell on without a start of horror.
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: I will save but one thing, Utterson, and that if
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: you can bring your mind to credit, it will be
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: more than enough. The creature who crept into my house
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: that night was, on Jekyll's own confession, known by the
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: name of Hide and hunted farm in every corner of
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: the land, as the murderer of carew Hasty Lanyon. End
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: of chapter nine, Chapter ten of The Strange Case of
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson. This
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter ten Henry
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: Jekylls's full statement of the case. I was born in
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: the year eighteen blank, to a large fortune, endowed besides
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: the respect of the wise and good among my fellow men,
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: and thus as might have been supposed, with every guarantee
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: of an honorable and distinguished future. And indeed the worst
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition,
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: such as has made the happiness of many, but such
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: desire to carry my head high and wear a more
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: about that I concealed my pleasures, and that when I
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: reached years of reflection and began to look round me
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: and take stock of my progress and position in the world,
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: Many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: I was guilty of, But from the high views that
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: I had set before me, I regarded and hid them
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: with an almost marbid sense of shame. It was thus,
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: degradation in my faults, that made me what I was,
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: and with even a deeper trench than in the majority
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: of men, severed in me those provinces of good and
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: ill which divide and compound man's dual nature. In this case,
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: hard law of life which lies at the root of
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: Though so profoundly a double dealer, I was in no
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: sense a hypocrite. Both sides of me were in dead earnest.
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: and plunged in shame, than when I labored in the
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: eye of day at the furtherance of knowledge or the
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: relief of sorrow and suffering. And it chanced that the
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly towards the
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: mystic and transcendental, reacted and shed a strong light on
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: this consciousness of the perennial war among my members. With
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: every and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 1: truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: such a dreadful shipwreck. That man is not truly one,
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: but truly two. I say two, because the state of
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. Others
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines,
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: and I hazard the guests that man will be ultimately
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent innocence. I,
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: for my own part, from the nature of my life,
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: advanced infallibly in one direction, and in one direction only.
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: It was on the moral side and in my own
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: person that I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: duality of man. I saw that of the two natures
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: that contended in the field of my country bousness. Even
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: if I could rightly be said to be either, it
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: was only because I was radically both. And from an
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of a miracle,
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements.
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate entities,
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: life would be relieved of all that was unbearable. The
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: remorse of his more upright twin, and the just could
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: good things in which he found his pleasure, and no
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: this extraneous evil. It was the curse of mankind that
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: these incongruous faggots were thus bound together, that in the
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: agonized womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling,
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: How then were they dissociated? I was so far in
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: my reflections when, as I have said, a side light
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: began to shine upon the subject from the laboratory table.
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: I began to perceive, more deeply than it has ever
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: been yet stated, the trembling immateriality, the mist like transience
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: attired certain agents. I found to have the power to
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: shake and pluck back the fleshy vestment, even as a
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion. For two
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: good reasons I will not enter deeply into this scientific
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: branch of my confession. First because I have been made
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: to learn that the doom and burden of our life
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: is bound forever on man's shoulders, and when the attempt
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: is made to cast it off, it but returns upon
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure. Second because,
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: as my narrative will make a last too evident, my
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: discoveries were incomplete enough then that I not only recognized
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 1: my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: certain of the powers that make up my spirit, but
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: manage to compound a drug by which these powers should
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: be dethroned from their supremacy, and the second form and
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: countenance substituted none the less natural to me, because they
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: were the expression and bore the stamp of lower elements
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: in my soul. I hesitated long before I put this
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: theory to the test of practice. I knew well that
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: I risked death for any drug that so potently controlled
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: and shook the very fortress of identity, might, by the
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: least scruple of an overdose, are at the least in opportunity.
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: In the moment of exhibition, blought out that immaterial tapernacle
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: which I looked to it to change. But the temptation
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: of a discovery so singular and profound, at last overcame
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: the suggestions of alarm. I had long since prepared my tincture.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: I purchased at once from a firm of wholesale chemist
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: a large quantity of a particular salt, which I knew
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 1: from my experiments to be the last ingredient required. And
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: late one accursed night I come pounded the elements, watched
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: them boil and smoke together in the glass, and when
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: the ebullition had subsided with a strong glow of courage,
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: drank off the potion. The most racking pang succeeded, a
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: grinding of the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside,
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: and I came to myself as if out of a
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: indescribably new, and from its very novelty, incredibly sweet. I
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: felt younger, lighter, happier in body. Within, I was conscious
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: running like a mill race in my fancy, a solution
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself at the
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: first breath of this new life to be more wicked, tenfold,
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil, and
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: the thought in that moment braced and delighted me like wine.
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: I stretched out my hands, exulting in the freshness of
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: these sensations, and in the act I was suddenly aware
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: that I had lost in stature. There was no mirror
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: at that date in my room, that which stands beside
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 1: me as I write, was brought there later on, and
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: for the very purpose of these transformations. The night, however,
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: was far gone into the morning. The morning, black as
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: it was, was nearly ripe for the conception of the day.
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: The inmates of my house were locked in the most
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 1: rigorous hours of slumber, and I determined, flushed as I was,
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: with hope and triumph, to venture in my new shape
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: as far as to my bedroom. I crossed the yard,
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 1: wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 1: thought with wonder the first creature of that sort, that
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them. I stole
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: through the corridors a stranger in my own house, and
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: coming to my room, I saw for the first time
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: the appearance of Edward Hyde. I must here speak by
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: theory alone, saying not that which I know, but that
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: which I supposed to be most probable. The evil side
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: of my nature to which I had now transferred the
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: good which I had just deposed again in the course
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: of my life, which had been after all nine tenths
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: a life of effort, virtue, and control. It had been
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: much less exercised and much less exhausted, And hints as
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 1: I think it came about, that Edward Hyde was so
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyl. Even as
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: goods shown upon the countenance of the one evil was
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: written broadly and plainly on the face of the other evil,
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: besides which I must still believe to be the lethal
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: side of man, had left on that body an imprint
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: of deformity and decay. And yet when I looked upon
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: the ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: no repugnance, a leap of welcome. This too was myself.
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: It seemed natural and human in my eyes. It bore
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: a livelier image of the spirit. It seemed more express
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: and single than the imperfect and divided countenance I had
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: been hitherto accustomed to call mine, And in so far
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: I was doubtless right. I have observed that when I
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This,
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: as I take it, was because all human beings, as
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: we meet them, or commingled out of good and evil,
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: and Edward hide alone in the ranks of mankind was
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: pure evil. I lingered, but a moment at the mirror
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: the second and conclusive experiment had yet to be attempted.
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: It yet remained to be seen if I had lost
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: my identity beyond redemption and must flee before daylight from
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 1: my us house that was no longer mine. And hurrying
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: back to my cabinet, I once more prepared and drank
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: the cup, once more, suffered the pangs of dissolution, and
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: came to myself once more with the character, the stature,
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: and the face of Henry Jekyll. That night I had
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: come to the fatal cross roads. Had I approached my
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: discovery in a more noble spirit, had I risked the
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: experiment while under the empire of generous or pious aspirations?
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: All must have been otherwise? And from these agonies of
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: death and birth I had come forth an angel instead
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: of a fiend. The drug had no discriminating action. It
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: was neither diabolical nor divine. It but shook the doors
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: of the prison house of my disposition, and like the
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth. At
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: that time my virtue slumbered. My evil, kept awake by ambition,
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: was alert and swift to seize the occasion. And the
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: thing that was projected was Edward Hyde. Hence, although I
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: had now two characters, as well as two appearances, one
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: wholly evil and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll,
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: that inconquerous compound of whose reformation and improvement I had
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: already learned to despair. The movement was thus wholly toward
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: the worse. Even at that time I had not conquered
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 1: my aversions to the dryness of a life of study.
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: I would still be merrily disposed at times, and as
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 1: my pleasures were, to say the least, undignified, and I
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: was not only well known and highly considered, but growing
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: towards the elderly man, this incoherency of my life was
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: daily growing more unwelcome. It was on this side that
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 1: my new power tempted me, until I fell in slavery.
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: I had but to drink the cup, to doff at
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: once the body of a noted professor, and to assume
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde. I smiled
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: at the notion it seemed to me at the time
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: to be humorous, and I made my preparations with the
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: most studious care. I took and furnished that house in Soho,
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: to which Hyde was tracked by the police and engaged
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: as a housekeeper, a creature whom I knew well to
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: be silent and unscrupulous. On the other side, I announced
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: to my servants that a mister Hyde, whom I described,
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: was to have full liberty and power about my house
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: in the square, and to parry misgivings, I even called
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: and made myself a familiar object in my second character.
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: I next drew up that will to which you so
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: much objected, so that if anything befell me in the
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: person of doctor Jekyll, I could enter on that of
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss, and thus fortified, as I supposed,
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: on every side, I began to profit by the strange
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: immunities of my position. Men have before hired bravos to
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: transact their crimes while their own person and reputation sat
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: under shelter. I was the first that ever did so
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: for his pleasures. I was the first that could plod
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: in the public eye with a load of genial respectability,
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: and in a moment like a schoolboy strip off these
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty. But
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 1: for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete.
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: Think of it, I did not even exist. Let me
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: but escape into my laboratory door. Give me but a
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: second or two to mix and swallow the draft that
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: I had always standing ready, And whatever he had done,
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: Edward Hyde would pass away like the stain of a
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: breath upon a mirror, And there in his stead, quietly
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: at home, trimming the midlight lamp in his study, a
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: man who could afford to laugh at suspicion would be
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: Henry chuckle. The pleasures which I made haste to seek
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified. I
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 1: would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous.
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: When I would come back from these excursions, I was
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 1: This familiar that I called out of my own soul
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure was
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: a being inherently malign and villleness. His every act and
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: thought centered on self drinking pleasure with besteal avidity from
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: any degree of torture to another, relentless like a man
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: of stone. Henry Chuckyll stood at times aghast before the
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 1: acts of Edward Hyde. But the situation was apart from
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 1: ordinary laws and insidiously relaxed the grasp of conscience. It
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: was Hide, after all, and Hide alone that was guilty.
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: Juckll was no worse. He woke again to his good qualities,
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: seemingly unimpaired. He would even make haste where it were
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: possible to undo the evil done by Hide. And thus
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 1: his conscience slumbered into the details of the infamy at
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 1: which I thus connived. For even now I can scarce
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: grant that I committed it. I have no design of entering.
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: I meant but to point out the warnings and the
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: successive steps with which my chastisement approached. I met with
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: one accident, which, as it brought on no consequence, I
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: shall no more than mention as an act of cruelty
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: to a child aroused against to be the anger of
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: a passer by whom I recognized the other day the
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: person of your kinsman, the doctor, and the child's family
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 1: joined him. There were moments when I feared for my life,
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 1: and at last, in order to pacify their too just resentment,
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: Edward Hyde had to bring them to the door and
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: pay them in a check drawn to the name of
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 1: Henry Chuckle. But this danger was easily eliminated from the
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: future by opening an account at another bank in the
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: name of Edward Hyde himself. And when by sloping my
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: own hand backward, I had supplied my double with the signature,
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: I thought I sat beyond the reach of fate. Some
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: two months before the murder of Sir Danvers, I had
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: been out for one of my adventures, had returned at
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: a late hour, and woke the next day in bed
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: with somewhat odd sensations. It was in Vain. I looked
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: about me. In Vain, I saw the decent furniture and
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: tall proportions of my room in the square in Vain
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: that I recognized the pattern of the bed curtains and
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: the design of the mahogany frame. Something still kept insisting
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: that I was not where I was, that I had
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: not wakened what I seemed to be, but in the
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: little room in Soho, where I was accustomed to sleep,
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 1: in the body of Edward Hyde. I smiled to myself,
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: but in a psychological way, began lazily to inquire into
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 1: the elements of this illusion. Occasionally, even as I did so,
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: dropping back into a comfortable morning doze, I was still
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: so engaged when, in one of my more wakeful moments,
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: my eyes fell upon my hand. Now, the hand of
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: Henry Jekyll, as you have often remarked, was professional in
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: shape and size. It was large, firm, white, and comely.
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: But the hand which I now saw clearly enough in
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: the yellow light of a mid London morning, lying half
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: shut on the bedclothes, was lean, corded, knuckily of a
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: dusky pallor, and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair.
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: It was the hand of Edward Hyde. I must have
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: stared upon it for near half a minute, sunk as
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: I was in the mere stupidity of wonder, before terror
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: woke up in my breast, as sudden and startling as
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: the crash of cymbals, and bounding from my bed, I
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: rushed to the mirror. At the sight that met my eyes,
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: my blood was changed into something exquisitely thin and icy. Yes,
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: I had gone to bed, Henry Jekyll, I had awakened
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: edward hide. How was this to be explained? I asked myself,
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: And then, with another bound of terror, how was it
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: to be remedied? It was well on in the morning.
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: The servants were all up, all my drugs were in
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: the cabinet, a long journey down two pairs of stairs,
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: through the back passage, across the open court, and through
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: the anatomical theater, from where I was then standing horror struck.
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: It might, indeed be possible to cover my face, But
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: of what use was that when I was unable to
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: conceal the alteration of my stature. And then, with an
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 1: overpowering sweetness of relief, he came back upon my mind
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: that the servants were already used to the comings and
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: going of my second self. I had soon dressed, as
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 1: well as I was able, in clothes of my own size,
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: had soon passed through the house where Bradshaw stared and
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 1: drew back at seeing mister Hyde at such an hour
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: and in such a strange array. And ten minutes later
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: Doctor Juckll had returned to his own shape, and was
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: sitting down with a darkened brow, to make a feint
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 1: of breakfasting small indeed was my appetite this inexplicable incident,
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: this reversal of my previous experience, seemed like the Babylonian
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 1: finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: of my judgment, and I began to reflect more seriously
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: than ever before on the issues and possibilities of my existence.
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: That part of me which I had the power of projecting,
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 1: had lately been much exercised and nourished. It had seemed
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 1: to me, of late, as though the body of Edward
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: Hyde had grown in stature, as though when I wore
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: that form, I were conscious of a more generous tide
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 1: of blood. And I began to spy a danger that
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 1: if this were much prolonged, the balance of my nature
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 1: might be permanently overthrown, the power of voluntary change be forfeited,
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: and the character of Edward Hyde become irrevocably mine. The
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 1: power of the drug had not been always equally displayed. Once,
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: very early in my career, it had totally failed me.
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: Since then, I had been obliged, on more than one
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: occasion to double, and once with infinite risk of death,
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: to trouble the amount, and these rare uncertainties had cast
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 1: hitherto the sole shadow on my contentment. Now, however, and
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 1: in the light of that morning's accident, I was led
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 1: to remark that whereas in the beginning the difficulty had
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: been to throw off the body of Jeckyll, it had
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 1: of late gradually but decidedly transferred itself to the other side.
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 1: All things therefore seemed to point to this that I
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 1: was slowly losing hold of my original and better self,
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 1: and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse. Between
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: these two, I now felt I had to choose. My
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: were most unequally shared between them. Jekyl, who was composite,
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: now with the most sensitive apprehensions, now with a greedy gusto,
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 1: projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde.
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 1: But Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll, or but remembered him
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 1: as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 1: conceals himself from pursuit. Jekyll had more than a father's interest,
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: Hyde had more than a son's indifference. To cast in.
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 1: My lot with Jekyl was to die to those appetites
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: which I had long secretly indulged, and had a late
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde was
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 1: to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 1: become at a blow and forever despised and friendless. The
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: bargain might appear unequal, but there was still another consideration
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: in the scales. For while Juckal would suffer smartingly in
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: the fires of abstinence, Hyde would not be even conscious
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 1: of all that he had lost. Strange as my circumstances were,
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: the terms of this debate were as old in commonplace
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 1: as man. Much the same inducements and alarms cast the
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 1: die for any tempted and trembling sinner, And it fell
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: out with me, as it falls with so vast the
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: majority of my fellows. That I chose the better part,
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 1: and was found wanting in the stress to keep to it. Yes,
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor, surrounded by friends
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 1: and cherishing honest hopes, and bade a resolute farewell to
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 1: the liberty, the comparative youth, the light step, leaping impulses
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 1: and secret pleasures that I had enjoyed in the disguise
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: of hide. I made this choice, perhaps with some unconscious reservation,
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: for I neither gave up the house in soho, nor
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: destroyed the close of Edward Hyde, which still lay ready
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: in my cabinet. For two months, however, I was true
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: to my determination. For two months I led a life
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: of such severity as I had never before attained to,
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: and enjoyed the compensations of an approving conscience. But time
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: The praises of conscience began to grow into a thing.
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: Of course, I began to be tortured with throes and
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 1: longings as of hide, struggling after freedom, And at last,
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 1: and swallowed the transforming draft. I do not suppose that
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice, he
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: is once out of five hundred times affected by the
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 1: dangers that he runs through his brutish physical insensibility. Neither
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: had I, long as I had considered my position, made
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility and insensate readiness
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 1: to evil, which were the leading characters of Edward Hyde.
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: Yet it was by these that I was punished. My
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: devil had been long caged he came out roaring. I
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: was conscious even when I took the draft of a
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: more unbridled and more furious propensity to ill. It must
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: have been this, I suppose, that stirred in my soul,
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 1: that tempest of impatience with which I listened to the
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 1: civilities of my unhappy victim. I declare, at least before God,
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 1: no man morally seeing could have been guilty of that
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 1: crime upon so pitiful a provocation, And that I struck
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 1: in no more reasonable spirit than that in which a
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 1: sick child may break a plaything. But I had voluntarily
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 1: stripped myself of all those balancing instincts by which even
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 1: the worst of us continues to walk with some degree
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 1: of steadiness among temptations, And in my case, to be tempted,
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: however slightly, was to fall. Instantly the spirit of Hell
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: awoke in me, and raged with a transport of glee,
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: I mauled the unresisting body, taking delight from every blow.
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: And it was not till weariness had begun to succeed
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: that I was, suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium,
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 1: struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.
• 2:35:10
  Speaker 1: A mist dispersed I saw my life to be forfeit,
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 1: and fled from the scene of those excesses, at once
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 1: glorying and trembling. My lust of evil gratified and stimulated
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 1: my love of life. Screwed to the topmost peg, I
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: ran to the house in soho, and to make assurance,
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: doubly sure destroyed my papers. Thence I set out through
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 1: the lamp lit streets in the same divided ecstasy of mind,
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: gloating on my crime, light headedly devising others in the future,
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 1: and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 1: for the steps of the avenger Hide had a song
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: upon his lips as he compounded the draft, and as
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 1: he drank it pledged the dead man. The transformation had
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 1: not done tearing him before Henry Juckal, with streaming tears
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 1: of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees, and
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: lifted his clasped hands to God. The veil of self
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 1: indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 1: life as a whole. I followed it up from the
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 1: days of childhood, when I had walked with my father's hand,
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 1: and through the self denying toils of my professional life
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 1: to arrive again and again with the same sense of unreality.
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 1: At the damned horrors of the evening, I could have
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 1: screamed aloud. I sought, with tears and prayers to smother
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: down the crowd of hideous images and sounds with which
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: my memory swarmed against me. And still between the petitions,
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: the ugly face of my iniquity stared into my soul.
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 1: As the acuteness of this remorse began to die away,
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: it was succeeded by a sense of joy. The problem
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: of my conduct was solved. Hyde was thenceforth impossible whether
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 1: I would or not. I was now confined to the
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 1: better part of my existence, And oh how I rejoice
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: to think of it. With what willing humility I embraced
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: anew the restrictions of natural life, with what sincere renunciation.
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: I locked the door by which I had so often gone,
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 1: and come and ground the key under my heel. The
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: next day came the news that the murder had not
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 1: been overlooked, that the guilt of hide was patent to
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 1: the world, and that the victim was a man high
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 1: in public estimation. It was not only a crime, it
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 1: had been a tragic folly. I think I was glad
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 1: to know it. I think I was glad to have
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: my better impulses. Thus buttressed and guarded by the terrors
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: of the scaffold, Jekyll was now my city of refuge.
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: Let but Hide peep out an instant, and the hands
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: of all men would be raised to take and slay him.
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past,
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: and I can say with honesty that my resolve was
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: fruitful of some good. You know yourself, how earnestly, in
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: the last month of the last year I labored to
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: relieve suffering. You know that much was done for others,
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: and that the days passed quietly, almost happily for myself.
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 1: beneficent and innocent life. I think instead that ideally enjoyed
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: it more completely. But I was still cursed with my
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 1: duality of purpose. And as the first edge of my
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 1: penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged,
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 1: so recently chained down, began to growl for license. Not
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: that I dreamed of resuscitating Hide, the bare idea of
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: that would startle me to frenzy. No, it was in
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 1: my own person, that I was once more tempted to
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: trifle with my conscience. And it was as an ordinary
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 1: secret center that I at last fell before the assaults
• 2:39:10
  Speaker 1: of temptation. There comes an end to all things. The
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: most capacious measure is filled at last, And this brief
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 1: And yet I was not alarmed. The fall seemed natural,
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 1: like the return of the old days before I had
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: made my discovery. It was a fine, clear January day,
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: wet underfoot where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead,
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: and the Regent's Park was full of winter chipperings and
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 1: sweet with spring odors. I sat in the sun on
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: a bench, the animal within me, licking the chops of memory,
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: the spiritual side, a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 1: not yet moved to begin. After all, reflected, I was
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 1: like my neighbors. And then I smiled, comparing myself with
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 1: other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 1: of their neglect. And at the very moment of that
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 1: vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea,
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 1: and the most deadly shuddering. These passed away and left
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: me faint. And then, as in his turn, faintness subsided.
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 1: I began to be aware of a change in the
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: temper of my thoughts, a greater boldness, a contempt of danger,
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: a solution of the bonds of obligation. I looked down,
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 1: My clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs. The hand
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: that lay on my knee was corded and hairy. I
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 1: was once more edward, hyed. A moment before I had
• 2:40:53
  Speaker 1: been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved the cloth
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: laying for me in the dining room at home. And
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 1: now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, homeless,
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 1: a known murderer, thrall to the gallows. My reason wavered,
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 1: but it did not fail me utterly. I have more
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: than once observed that in my second character, my faculty
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 1: seemed sharpened to a point, and my spirits more tensely elastic.
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 1: Thus it came about that where Jekyll perhaps might have succumbed,
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: hide rose to the importance of the moment. My drugs
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 1: were in one of the presses of my cabinet. How
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: was I to reach them? That was the problem that
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 1: crushing my temples in my hands. I set myself to
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 1: solve the laboratory door I had closed. If I sought
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 1: to enter by my house, my own servants would consign
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: me to the gallows. I saw I must employ another hand,
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 1: and thought of Lanyon. How was he to be reached,
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 1: how persuaded? Supposing that I escaped capture in the streets,
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 1: How was I to make my way into his presence?
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 1: And how should I an unknown and displeasing visitor prevail
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 1: the famous physician to rifle the study of his colleague,
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 1: doctor Juckle. Then I remembered that of my original character,
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 1: one part remained to me. I could write my own hand.
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 1: And once I had conceived that kindling spark, the way
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: that I must follow became lighted up from end to end.
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 1: Thereupon I arranged my clothes as best I could, and,
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 1: summoning a passing hansom, drove to an hotel in Portland Street,
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 1: the name of which I chanced to remember at my appearance,
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 1: which was indeed comical enough. However tragic a fate these
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 1: garments covered. The driver could not conceal his mirth. I
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 1: gnashed my teeth upon him with a gust of devilish fury,
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: and the smile withered from his face. Haply for him,
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 1: yet more happily for myself, for in another instant I
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: had certainly dragged him from his perch at the end,
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 1: as I entered, I looked about me with so black
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: a countenance as to make the attendants tremble. Not a
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: look that they exchange in my presence, but obsequiously took
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 1: my orders, led me to a private room, and brought
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 1: me wherewithal to write. Hide in danger of his life
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: was a creature new to me, shaken with inordinate anger,
• 2:43:29
  Speaker 1: stung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 1: Yet the creature was astute, mastered his fury with a
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 1: great effort of the will, composed his two important letters,
• 2:43:42
  Speaker 1: one to Lanyon and one to Pool, and that he
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 1: might receive actual evidence of their being posted, sent them
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 1: out with directions that they should be registered. Thenceforward he
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: sat all day before the fire in the private room,
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 1: gnawing his nails. There he dined, sitting alone with his fears,
• 2:44:01
  Speaker 1: the waiter visibly quelling before his eye. And thence when
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 1: the night was fully come, he set forth in the
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 1: corner of a closed cab, and was driven to and
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: fro about the streets of the city. He I say,
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 1: I cannot say. I that child of Hell had nothing human,
• 2:44:19
  Speaker 1: nothing lived in him but fear and hatred. And when
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 1: at last, thinking the driver had begun to grow suspicious,
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 1: he discharged the cab and ventured on foot, attired in
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 1: his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into
• 2:44:35
  Speaker 1: the midst of the nocturnal passengers. These two base passions
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 1: raged within him like a tempest. He walked fast, haunted
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 1: by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 1: frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 1: Once a woman spoke to him, offering, I think a
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  Speaker 1: box of lights. He smote her in the face, and
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  Speaker 1: she fled. When I came to myself at Lenion's, the
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  Speaker 1: horror of my old friend perhaps affected me somewhat. I
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  Speaker 1: do not know. It was at least but a drop
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  Speaker 1: in the sea to the abhorrence with which I looked
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  Speaker 1: back upon these hours. A change had come over me.
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  Speaker 1: It was no longer the fear of the gallows. It
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: was the horror of being hide that racked me. I
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 1: received Lanyon's condemnation partly in a dream. It was partly
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  Speaker 1: in a dream that I came home to my own
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  Speaker 1: house and got into bed. I slept after the prostration
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  Speaker 1: of the day with a stringent and profound slumber which
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
• 2:45:46
  Speaker 1: I awoke in the morning, shaken, weakened, but refreshed. I
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 1: still hated and feared the thought of the brute that
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 1: slept within me, and I had not, of course, forgotten
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  Speaker 1: the appalling dangers of the day before. But I was
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  Speaker 1: once more at home, in my own house and close
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  Speaker 1: to my drugs, and gratitude for my escape shone so
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  Speaker 1: strong in my soul that it almost rivaled the brightness
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  Speaker 1: of hope. I was stepping leisurely across the court after breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: drinking the chill of the air with pleasure, when I
• 2:46:20
  Speaker 1: was seized again with those indescribable sensations that heralded the change.
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  Speaker 1: And I had but the time to gain the shelter
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  Speaker 1: of my cabinet before I was once again raging and
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  Speaker 1: freezing with the passions of hide. It took on this
• 2:46:36
  Speaker 1: occasion a double doze to recall me to myself, and
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  Speaker 1: alas six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in
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  Speaker 1: the fire, the pangs returned and the drug had to
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  Speaker 1: be re administered. In short From that day forth, it
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 1: seemed only by a great effort of gymnastics, and only
• 2:46:56
  Speaker 1: under the immediate stimulation of the drug, that I was
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 1: able to win the countenance of Jeckyll. At all hours
• 2:47:03
  Speaker 1: of the day and night, I would be taken with
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  Speaker 1: a promontory shudder. Above all, if I slept or even
• 2:47:09
  Speaker 1: dozed for a moment in my chair, it was always
• 2:47:12
  Speaker 1: as hide that I awakened under the strain of this
• 2:47:16
  Speaker 1: continual impending doom, and by the sleepiness to which I
• 2:47:21
  Speaker 1: now condemned myself. Ay, even beyond what I had thought
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  Speaker 1: possible to man, I became in my own person a
• 2:47:29
  Speaker 1: creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languid, weak both
• 2:47:34
  Speaker 1: in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought,
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 1: the horror of my other self. But when I slept,
• 2:47:44
  Speaker 1: or when the virtue of the medicine wore off, I
• 2:47:47
  Speaker 1: would leap almost without transition, for the pangs of transformation
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 1: grew daily less marked into the possession of a fancy
• 2:47:55
  Speaker 1: brimming with images of terror, a soul boiling with costless hatreds,
• 2:48:00
  Speaker 1: and a body that seemed not strong enough to contain
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: the raging energies of life. The powers of Hide seemed
• 2:48:08
  Speaker 1: to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyl, and certainly
• 2:48:12
  Speaker 1: the hate that now divided them was equal on each
• 2:48:15
  Speaker 1: side with Jekyl. It was a thing of vital instinct.
• 2:48:19
  Speaker 1: He had now seen the full deformity of that creature
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  Speaker 1: that shared with him some of the phenomena of consciousness,
• 2:48:27
  Speaker 1: and was co err with him to death and beyond
• 2:48:31
  Speaker 1: these lengths of community, which in themselves made the most
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 1: poignant part of his distress. He thought of Hide for
• 2:48:37
  Speaker 1: all his energy of life, as of something not only
• 2:48:40
  Speaker 1: hellish but inorganic. This was the shocking thing that the
• 2:48:47
  Speaker 1: slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices,
• 2:48:51
  Speaker 1: that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned, that what was
• 2:48:56
  Speaker 1: dead and had no shape should usurp the offices of life.
• 2:49:00
  Speaker 1: And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him,
• 2:49:05
  Speaker 1: closer than a wife, closer than an eye, lay caged
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  Speaker 1: in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt
• 2:49:13
  Speaker 1: it struggle to be borne, and at every hour of
• 2:49:17
  Speaker 1: weakness and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him
• 2:49:21
  Speaker 1: and deposed him out of life. The hatred of hide,
• 2:49:26
  Speaker 1: for Jekyl was of a different ardor his terror of
• 2:49:30
  Speaker 1: the gallows strove him continually to commit temporary suicide and
• 2:49:34
  Speaker 1: returned to his subordinate station of a part instead of
• 2:49:37
  Speaker 1: a person. But he loathed the necessity. He loathed the
• 2:49:42
  Speaker 1: despondency into which Jekyl was now fallen, and he resented
• 2:49:47
  Speaker 1: the dislike with which he was himself regarded. Hence the
• 2:49:51
  Speaker 1: ape like tricks that he would play me, scrawling in
• 2:49:54
  Speaker 1: my own hand, blasphemies on the pages of my books,
• 2:49:58
  Speaker 1: burning the letters, and destroying the poor trait of my father.
• 2:50:01
  Speaker 1: And indeed, had it not been for his fear of death,
• 2:50:05
  Speaker 1: he would long ago have ruined himself in order to
• 2:50:08
  Speaker 1: involve me in the ruin. But his love of me
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 1: is wonderful. I go further, I who sicken and freeze
• 2:50:16
  Speaker 1: at the mere thought of him, when I recall the
• 2:50:20
  Speaker 1: objection and passion of this attachment, and when I know
• 2:50:23
  Speaker 1: how he fears my powers to cut him off by suicide,
• 2:50:27
  Speaker 1: I find it in my heart to pity him. It
• 2:50:32
  Speaker 1: is useless, and the time awfully fails me to prolong
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 1: this description. No one has ever suffered such torments, let
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 1: that suffice. And yet even to these habit brought no
• 2:50:45
  Speaker 1: not alleviation, but a certain callousness of soul, a certain
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 1: acquiescence of despair. And my punishment might have gone on
• 2:50:54
  Speaker 1: for years, but for the last calamity, which has now fallen,
• 2:50:58
  Speaker 1: and which has finally set me from my own face
• 2:51:01
  Speaker 1: and nature. My provision of assault, which had never been
• 2:51:06
  Speaker 1: renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to
• 2:51:09
  Speaker 1: run low. I sent out for a fresh supply and
• 2:51:12
  Speaker 1: mixed the draft. The ebulition followed, and the first change
• 2:51:16
  Speaker 1: of color, not the second. I drank it, and it
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 1: was without efficiency. You will learn from Pool how I
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 1: have had London ransacked. It was in vain, and I
• 2:51:29
  Speaker 1: am now persuaded that my first supply was impure, and
• 2:51:33
  Speaker 1: that it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy to
• 2:51:37
  Speaker 1: the draft. About a week has passed, and I am
• 2:51:41
  Speaker 1: now finishing this statement under the influence of the last
• 2:51:44
  Speaker 1: of the old powders. This then, is the last time,
• 2:51:49
  Speaker 1: Charlot of a miracle that Henry Jekyll can think his
• 2:51:52
  Speaker 1: own thoughts, or see his own face now, how sadly
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 1: altered in the glass. Nor must I delay too long
• 2:52:00
  Speaker 1: to bring my writing to an end. For if my
• 2:52:03
  Speaker 1: narrative has hitherto escaped destruction, it has been by a
• 2:52:07
  Speaker 1: combination of great prudence and great good luck. Should the
• 2:52:12
  Speaker 1: throes of change take me in the act of writing it,
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 1: Hide will tear it in pieces. But if some time
• 2:52:19
  Speaker 1: shall have elapsed after I have laid it, by his
• 2:52:22
  Speaker 1: wonderful selfishness and circumscription to the moment, will probably save
• 2:52:26
  Speaker 1: it once again from the action of his ape like spite.
• 2:52:31
  Speaker 1: And indeed the doom that is closing on us both
• 2:52:34
  Speaker 1: has already changed and crushed him. Half an hour from now,
• 2:52:38
  Speaker 1: when I shall again and forever reindue that hated personality,
• 2:52:43
  Speaker 1: I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in
• 2:52:46
  Speaker 1: my chair, or continue with the most strained and fear
• 2:52:50
  Speaker 1: struck ecstasy of listening to pace up and down this room,
• 2:52:54
  Speaker 1: my last earthly refuge, and give ear to every sound
• 2:52:58
  Speaker 1: of menace? Will Hide die upon the scaffold, or will
• 2:53:03
  Speaker 1: he find courage to release himself with the last moment?
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 1: God knows I am careless this is my true hour
• 2:53:12
  Speaker 1: of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself. Here, then,
• 2:53:18
  Speaker 1: as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 1: up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: Henry Chuckle to an end. End of chapter ten, end
• 2:53:30
  Speaker 1: of The Strange Castes of Doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde
• 2:53:34
  Speaker 1: by Robert Louis Stevenson, the story performed by Phil Chinever
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  Speaker 1: January of two thousand and nineteen.