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1  So had the child's family, which was only natural.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
2  That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
3  Well, the child was not much the worse, more frightened, according to the Sawbones; and there you might have supposed would be an end to it.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
4  I gave a view-halloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite a group about the screaming child.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
5  Well, we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child's family; he would have clearly liked to stick out; but there was something about the lot of us that meant mischief, and at last he struck.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
6  So we all set off, the doctor, and the child's father, and our friend and myself, and passed the rest of the night in my chambers; and next day, when we had breakfasted, went in a body to the bank.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
7  Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
8  He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city; then of the figure of a man walking swiftly; then of a child running from the doctor's; and then these met, and that human Juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
9  The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city, and at every street-corner crush a child and leave her screaming.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
10  It must have been this, I suppose, that stirred in my soul that tempest of impatience with which I listened to the civilities of my unhappy victim; I declare, at least, before God, no man morally sane could have been guilty of that crime upon so pitiful a provocation; and that I struck in no more reasonable spirit than that in which a sick child may break a plaything.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE