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1  Well, life has been pleasant; I liked it; yes, sir, I used to like it.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
2  Now that that evil influence had been withdrawn, a new life began for Dr.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  Lanyon, my life, my honour my reason, are all at your mercy; if you fail me to-night I am lost.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
4  It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
5  I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion; you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
6  There was never a day when, if you had said to me, 'Jekyll, my life, my honour, my reason, depend upon you,' I would not have sacrificed my left hand to help you.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
7  My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
8  He sprang to it, and then paused, and laid his hand upon his heart: I could hear his teeth grate with the convulsive action of his jaws; and his face was so ghastly to see that I grew alarmed both for his life and reason.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
9  He could have wished it otherwise; never in his life had he been conscious of so sharp a wish to see and touch his fellow-creatures; for struggle as he might, there was borne in upon his mind a crushing anticipation of calamity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
10  In silence, too, they traversed the by-street; and it was not until they had come into a neighbouring thoroughfare, where even upon a Sunday there were still some stirrings of life, that Mr. Utterson at last turned and looked at his companion.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
11  I took the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal, and that a man does not, in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out of it with another man's cheque for close upon a hundred pounds.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
12  The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
13  His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into a sober and fearful gratitude by the many that he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
14  Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man's cruelty, at once so callous and violent; of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present whereabouts, not a whisper.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
15  At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
16  Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
17  He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor's bigness; the cords of his face still moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone; and by the crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels that hung upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
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