The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
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Page 107 - be it so. You are an old customer after all; and if, as you say, you have the chance of a good marriage, far be it from me to be an obstacle. Here is a nice thing for a lady now...
Page 120 - ... which he beheld himself at various angles, like an actor on a stage; many pictures, framed and unframed, standing, with their faces to the wall; a fine Sheraton sideboard, a cabinet of marquetry, and a great old bed, with tapestry hangings. The windows opened to the floor; but by great good fortune the lower part of the shutters had been closed, and this concealed him from the neighbours.
Page 396 - I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures. I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.
Page 52 - I had often before fitted to the chorus of the breakers: But yet the Lord that is on high, Is more of might by far, Than noise of many waters is, As great sea billows are.
Page 390 - ... the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.
Page 392 - There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body ; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a mill race in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul.
Page 108 - A glass," he said hoarsely, and then paused, and repeated it more clearly. "A glass? For Christmas? Surely not?" " And why not ? " cried the dealer. " Why not a glass ? " Markheim was looking upon him with an indefinable expression. "You ask me why not?" he said. " Why, look here — look in it — look at yourself! Do you like to see it? No ! nor I — nor any man.
Page 388 - Many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of; but from the high views that I had set before me I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame.
Page 118 - The faint, foggy daylight glimmered dimly on the bare floor and stairs ; on the bright suit of armour posted, halbert in hand, upon the landing; and on the dark wood-carvings, and framed pictures that hung against the yellow panels of the wainscot. So loud was the beating of the rain through all the house that, in Markheim's ears, it began to be distinguished into many different sounds. Footsteps and sighs, the tread of regiments marching in the distance, the chink of money in the counting, and the...
Page 330 - ... and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr. Utterson regarded him. " There must be something else," said the perplexed gentleman.