The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold,...

No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his...

It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by street in a busy quarter of...

Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court;...

Well, it was this way, returned Mr. Enfield. I was coming home from some place at the end of the...

I see you feel as I do, said Mr. Enfield. Yes, its a bad story. For my man was a fellow that nobody...

No, sir; I had a delicacy, was the reply. I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes...

But I have studied the place for myself, continued Mr. Enfield. It seems scarcely a house. There is...

He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing,...

Yes, I know, said Utterson; I know it must seem strange. The fact is, if I do not ask you the name...

I think you might have warned me, returned the other with a touch of sullenness. But I have been...

Mr. Utterson sighed deeply but said never a word; and the young man presently resumed. Here is...

That evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner...

With that he blew out his candle, put on a greatcoat, and set forth in the direction of Cavendish...

The solemn butler knew and welcomed him; he was subjected to no stage of delay, but ushered direct...

We had, was the reply. But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me....

This little spirit of temper was somewhat of a relief to Mr. Utterson. They have only differed on...

That was the amount of information that the lawyer carried back with him to the great, dark bed on...

Six oclock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to Mr. Uttersons...

From that time forward, Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by street of shops. In the...

And at last his patience was rewarded. It was a fine dry night; frost in the air; the streets as...

The steps drew swiftly nearer, and swelled out suddenly louder as they turned the end of the...

Mr. Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath. But his fear was only momentary; and...

I see you are going in, returned the lawyer. I am an old friend of Dr. Jekylls Mr. Utterson of...

Mr. Hyde appeared to hesitate, and then, as if upon some sudden reflection, fronted about with an...

The lawyer stood awhile when Mr. Hyde had left him, the picture of disquietude. Then he began...

Round the corner from the by street, there was a square of ancient, handsome houses, now for the...

I will see, Mr. Utterson, said Poole, admitting the visitor, as he spoke, into a large, low roofed,...

Here, thank you, said the lawyer, and he drew near and leaned on the tall fender. This hall, in...

And the lawyer set out homeward with a very heavy heart. Poor Harry Jekyll, he thought, my mind...

A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some...

A close observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful; but the doctor carried it off...

The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about...

It can make no change. You do not understand my position, returned the doctor, with a certain...

My good Utterson, said the doctor, this is very good of you, this is downright good of you, and I...

Well, but since we have touched upon this business, and for the last time I hope, continued the...

Nearly a year later, in the month of October, 18 , London was startled by a crime of singular...

It was two oclock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long...

This was brought to the lawyer the next morning, before he was out of bed; and he had no sooner...

Good God, sir, exclaimed the officer, is it possible. And the next moment his eye lighted up with...

Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he...

It was by this time about nine in the morning, and the first fog of the season. A great chocolate...

As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy...

An ivory faced and silvery haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by...

Very well, then, we wish to see his rooms, said the lawyer; and when the woman began to declare it...

In the whole extent of the house, which but for the old woman remained otherwise empty, Mr. Hyde...

You may depend upon it, sir, he told Mr. Utterson. I have him in my hand. He must have lost his...

This last, however, was not so easy of accomplishment; for Mr. Hyde had numbered few familiars even...

It was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr. Jekylls door, where he was at...

Utterson, I swear to God, cried the doctor, I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I...

The lawyer listened gloomily; he did not like his friends feverish manner. You seem pretty sure of...

I am quite sure of him, replied Jekyll; I have grounds for certainty that I cannot share with any...

The letter was written in an odd, upright hand and signed Edward Hyde. and it signified, briefly...

On his way out, the lawyer stopped and had a word or two with Poole. By the bye, said he, there was...

This news sent off the visitor with his fears renewed. Plainly the letter had come by the...

Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head clerk, upon the...

I should like to hear your views on that, replied Utterson. I have a document here in his...

But no sooner was Mr. Utterson alone that night, than he locked the note into his safe, where it...

Time ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the death of Sir Danvers was resented...

On the 8th of January Utterson had dined at the doctors with a small party; Lanyon had been there;...

There at least he was not denied admittance; but when he came in, he was shocked at the change...

I have had a shock, he said, and I shall never recover. It is a question of weeks. Well, life has...

But Lanyons face changed, and he held up a trembling hand. I wish to see or hear no more of Dr....

I am not surprised at that, was the reply. Some day, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps...

As soon as he got home, Utterson sat down and wrote to Jekyll, complaining of his exclusion from...

A week afterwards Dr. Lanyon took to his bed, and in something less than a fortnight he was dead....

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it; and it may be doubted if, from that...

It chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk with Mr. Enfield, that their way lay...

It was impossible to do the one without the other, returned Enfield. And by the way, what an ass...

So you found it out, did you. said Utterson. But if that be so, we may step into the court and take...

The court was very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight, although the sky, high...

You stay too much indoors, said the lawyer. You should be out, whipping up the circulation like Mr....

You are very good, sighed the other. I should like to very much; but no, no, no, it is quite...

That is just what I was about to venture to propose, returned the doctor with a smile. But the...

You know the doctors ways, sir, replied Poole, and how he shuts himself up. Well, hes shut up again...

The mans appearance amply bore out his words; his manner was altered for the worse; and except for...

Mr. Uttersons only answer was to rise and get his hat and greatcoat; but he observed with wonder...

It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the...

The hall, when they entered it, was brightly lighted up; the fire was built high; and about the...

Hold your tongue. Poole said to her, with a ferocity of accent that testified to his own jangled...

Now, sir, said he, you come as gently as you can. I want you to hear, and I dont want you to be...

Mr. Uttersons nerves, at this unlooked for termination, gave a jerk that nearly threw him from his...

Thank you, sir, said Poole, with a note of something like triumph in his voice; and taking up his...

Changed. Well, yes, I think so, said the butler. Have I been twenty years in this mans house, to be...

This is a very strange tale, Poole; this is rather a wild tale my man, said Mr. Utterson, biting...

Well, Mr. Utterson, you are a hard man to satisfy, but Ill do it yet, said Poole. All this last...

Poole felt in his pocket and handed out a crumpled note, which the lawyer, bending nearer to the...

Thats it. said Poole. It was this way. I came suddenly into the theatre from the garden. It seems...

These are all very strange circumstances, said Mr. Utterson, but I think I begin to see daylight....

Sir, said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, that thing was not my master, and theres...

Poole, replied the lawyer, if you say that, it will become my duty to make certain. Much as I...

Well, sir, it went so quick, and the creature was so doubled up, that I could hardly swear to that,...

Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman...

Quite so, sir, returned Poole. Well, when that masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the...

Ay, ay, said the lawyer. My fears incline to the same point. Evil, I fear, founded evil was sure to...

Pull yourself together, Bradshaw, said the lawyer. This suspense, I know, is telling upon all of...

As Bradshaw left, the lawyer looked at his watch. And now, Poole, let us get to ours, he said; and...

So it will walk all day, sir, whispered Poole; ay, and the better part of the night. Only when a...

But now the ten minutes drew to an end. Poole disinterred the axe from under a stack of packing...

Jekyll, cried Utterson, with a loud voice, I demand to see you. He paused a moment, but there came...

Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building, and the red baize door leaped...

The besiegers, appalled by their own riot and the stillness that had succeeded, stood back a little...

Right in the middle there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching. They drew...

The far greater proportion of the building was occupied by the theatre, which filled almost the...

They mounted the stair in silence, and still with an occasional awestruck glance at the dead body,...

This brought them to the fireside, where the easy chair was drawn cosily up, and the tea things...

Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval glass, into...

And surely none stranger than itself, echoed the lawyer in the same tones. For what did Jekyll he...

Next they turned to the business table. On the desk, among the neat array of papers, a large...

He caught up the next paper; it was a brief note in the doctors hand and dated at the top. O Poole....

My dear Utterson, When this shall fall into your hands, I shall have disappeared, under what...

The lawyer put it in his pocket. I would say nothing of this paper. If your master has fled or is...

They went out, locking the door of the theatre behind them; and Utterson, once more leaving the...

On the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening delivery a registered...

Dear Lanyon, You are one of my oldest friends; and although we may have differed at times on...

I want you to postpone all other engagements for to night ay, even if you were summoned to the...

That is the first part of the service. now for the second. You should be back, if you set out at...

Confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks and my hand trembles at...

P.S. I had already sealed this up when a fresh terror struck upon my soul. It is possible that the...

Upon the reading of this letter, I made sure my colleague was insane; but till that was proved...

Here I proceeded to examine its contents. The powders were neatly enough made up, but not with the...

He told me yes by a constrained gesture; and when I had bidden him enter, he did not obey me...

These particulars struck me, I confess, disagreeably; and as I followed him into the bright light...

This person who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I can only...

I put him back, conscious at his touch of a certain icy pang along my blood. Come, sir, said I. You...

I beg your pardon, Dr. Lanyon, he replied civilly enough. What you say is very well founded; and my...

He sprang to it, and then paused, and laid his hand upon his heart; I could hear his teeth grate...

He turned a dreadful smile to me, and as if with the decision of despair, plucked away the sheet....

He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of...

And now, said he, to settle what remains. Will you be wise. will you be guided. will you suffer me...

Sir, said I, affecting a coolness that I was far from truly possessing, you speak enigmas, and you...

It is well, replied my visitor. Lanyon, you remember your vows. what follows is under the seal of...

He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched...

What he told me in the next hour, I cannot bring my mind to set on paper. I saw what I saw, I heard...

I was born in the year 18 to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by...

I was so far in my reflections when, as I have said, a side light began to shine upon the subject...

I hesitated long before I put this theory to the test of practice. I knew well that I risked death;...

The most racking pangs succeeded. a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the...

There was no mirror, at that date, in my room; that which stands beside me as I write, was brought...

I must here speak by theory alone, saying not that which I know, but that which I suppose to be...

I lingered but a moment at the mirror. the second and conclusive experiment had yet to be...

That night I had come to the fatal cross roads. Had I approached my discovery in a more noble...

Even at that time, I had not conquered my aversions to the dryness of a life of study. I would...

Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat...

The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would...

Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived for even now I can scarce grant that I...

Some two months before the murder of Sir Danvers, I had been out for one of my adventures, had...

I must have stared upon it for near half a minute, sunk as I was in the mere stupidity of wonder,...

Small indeed was my appetite. This inexplicable incident, this reversal of my previous experience,...

Between these two, I now felt I had to choose. My two natures had memory in common, but all other...