1 When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 2 Sir," said I, affecting a coolness that I was far from truly possessing, "you speak enigmas, and you will perhaps not wonder that I hear you with no very strong impression of belief.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE 3 But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 4 I must have stared upon it for near half a minute, sunk as I was in the mere stupidity of wonder, before terror woke up in my breast as sudden and startling as the crash of cymbals; and bounding from my bed, I rushed to the mirror.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 5 Mr. Utterson's only answer was to rise and get his hat and great-coat; but he observed with wonder the greatness of the relief that appeared upon the butler's face, and perhaps with no less, that the wine was still untasted when he set it down to follow.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT 6 But his love of life is wonderful; I go further: I, who sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide, I find it in my heart to pity him.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 7 At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste, and merely wondered at the acuteness of the symptoms; but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man, and to turn on some nobler hinge than the principle of hatred.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE 8 Should the throes of change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces; but if some time shall have elapsed after I have laid it by, his wonderful selfishness and Circumscription to the moment will probably save it once again from the action of his ape-like spite.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 9 I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE