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1  She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
2  Now that that evil influence had been withdrawn, a new life began for Dr. Jekyll.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
3  Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4  The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5  Jekyll was no worse; he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired; he would even make haste, where it was possible, to undo the evil done by Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
6  There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7  At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion; and the thing that was projected was Edward Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
8  This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
9  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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
10  A mist dispersed; I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated, my love of life screwed to the topmost peg.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
11  Hence, although I had now two characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil, and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll, that incongruous compound of whose reformation and improvement I had already learned to despair.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
12  I do not suppose that, when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice, he is once out of five hundred times affected by the dangers that he runs through his brutish, physical insensibility; neither had I, long as I had considered my position, made enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility and insensate readiness to evil, which were the leading characters of Edward Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE