Jekyll and hyde poole flavor1/15/2024 “Shall I keep this and sleep upon it?” asked Utterson. “I burned it,” replied Jekyll, “before I thought what I was about. The lawyer liked this letter well enough it put a better colour on the intimacy than he had looked for and he blamed himself for some of his past suspicions. Jekyll, whom he had long so unworthily repaid for a thousand generosities, need labour under no alarm for his safety, As he had means of escape on which he placed a sure dependence. The letter was written in an odd, upright hand and signed “Edward Hyde”: and it signified, briefly enough, that the writer’s benefactor, Dr. “Well,” said he, at last, “let me see the letter.” Utterson ruminated a while he was surprised at his friend’s selfishness, and yet relieved by it. I was thinking of my own character, which this hateful business has rather exposed.” “I cannot say that I care what becomes of Hyde I am quite done with him. “You fear, I suppose, that it might lead to his detection?” asked the lawyer. I should like to leave it in your hands, Utterson you would judge wisely, I am sure I have so great a trust in you.” I have - I have received a letter and I am at a loss whether I should show it to the police. But there is one thing on which you may advise me. “I am quite sure of him,” replied Jekyll “I have grounds for certainty that I cannot share with any one. If it came to a trial, your name might appear.” “You seem pretty sure of him,” said he “and for your sake, I hope you may be right. The lawyer listened gloomily he did not like his friend’s feverish manner. And indeed he does not want my help you do not know him as I do he is safe, he is quite safe mark my words, he will never more be heard of.” I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. “Utterson, I swear to God,” cried the doctor, “I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. You have not been mad enough to hide this fellow?” ![]() “Carew was my client, but so are you, and I want to know what I am doing. “They were crying it in the square,” he said. Utterson, as soon as Poole had left them, “you have heard the news?” He did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice. A fire burned in the grate a lamp was set lighted on the chimney shelf, for even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly and there, close up to the warmth, sat Dr. It was a large room, fitted round with glass presses, furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron. Utterson was at last received into the doctor’s cabinet. At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with red baize and through this, Mr. It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend’s quarters and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola. The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon and his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical, had changed the destination of the block at the bottom of the garden. ![]() Jekyll’s door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and carried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or the dissecting-rooms. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! ![]() The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.
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