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1  Utterson reflected a little, looking in the fire.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
2  My visitor was, indeed, on fire with sombre excitement.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
3  The hall, when they entered it, was brightly lighted up; the fire was built high; and about the hearth the whole of the servants, men and women, stood huddled together like a flock of sheep.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
4  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. Jekyll, looking deadly sick.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
5  The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
6  But it was so turned as to show them nothing but the rosy glow playing on the roof, the fire sparkling in a hundred repetitions along the glazed front of the presses, and their own pale and fearful countenances stooping to look in.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
7  "Thank you, sir," said Poole, with a note of something like triumph in his voice; and taking up his candle, he led Mr. Utterson back across the yard and into the great kitchen, where the fire was out and the beetles were leaping on the floor.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
8  They went out, locking the door of the theatre behind them; and Utterson, once more leaving the servants gathered about the fire in the hall, trudged back to his office to read the two narratives in which this mystery was now to be explained.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
9  It was his custom of a Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity on his reading-desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
10  From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt-end of a green cheque-book, which had resisted the action of the fire; the other half of the stick was found behind the door; and as this clinched his suspicions, the officer declared himself delighted.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
11  Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
12  Thenceforward, he sat all day over the fire in the private room, gnawing his nails; there he dined, sitting alone with his fears, the waiter visibly quailing before his eye; and thence, when the night was fully come, he set forth in the corner of a closed cab, and was driven to and fro about the streets of the city.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13  Even on Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest; and with its freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR