The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”

There comes an end to all things;

put your heart in your ears

and yet even to these, habit brought—no, not al­le­vi­ation—but a cer­tain cal­lous­ness of soul, a cer­tain ac­qui­es­cence of des­pair;

one has ever suffered such tor­ments, let that suf­fice;

unger, lighter, hap­pier in body; within I was con­scious of a heady reck­less­ness, a cur­rent of dis­ordered sen­sual im­ages run­ning like a millrace in my fancy, a solu­tion of the bonds of ob­lig­a­tion, an un­known but not an in­no­cent free­dom of the soul. I knew my­self, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, ten­fold more wicked, sold a slave to my ori­ginal evil; and the thought, in that mo­ment, braced and de­lighted me like wine.

unger, lighter, hap­pier in body; within I was con­scious of a heady reck­less­ness, a cur­rent of dis­ordered sen­sual im­ages run­ning like a millrace in my fancy, a solu­tion of the bonds of ob­lig­a­tion, an un­known but not an in­no­cent free­dom of the soul. I knew my­self, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, ten­fold more wicked, sold a slave to my ori­ginal evil; and the thought, in that mo­ment, braced and de­lighted me like wine.

was the curse of man­kind that these in­con­gru­ous fag­gots were thus bound to­gether

ap­pre­hen­sion

Tramps slouched into the re­cess and struck matches on the pan­els; chil­dren kept shop upon the steps; the school­boy had tried his knife on the mould­ings;