QUOTATIONS Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Discuss the significance of the following quotations:

1. “Did you ever remark that door?” he asked; and when his companion had replied in the affirmative, “It is connected in my mind,” he added, “with a very odd story.”

2. “If you choose to make a capital out of this accident,” said he, “I am naturally helpless. No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,” says he. “Name your figure.”

3. “He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary looking man, and yet I can name nothing out of the way. No, sir,; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.”

4. “I thought it was madness,” he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, “and now I begin to fear it is disgrace.”

5. “We had,” was the reply. “But it is more than ten years since henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old time’s sake, as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man. Such unscientific balderdash,” added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, “would have estranged Damon and Pythias.”

6. “If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”

7. “Poor Harry Jekyll,” he thought, “my mind misgives me he is in deep waters! He was wild when he was young; a long time ago to be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.”

8. “I will tell you one thing: the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde. I give you my hand upon that; and I thank you again and again; and I will add just one little word, Utterson, that I am sure you’ll take in good part: this is a private matter, and I beg of you to let it sleep.”

9. “I have really a very great interest in poor Hyde. I know you have seen him; he told me so; and I fear he was rude. But I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in that young man; and if I am taken away, Utterson, I wish you to promise me that you will bear with me and get his rights for him. I think you would, if you knew all; and it would be a weight off my mind if you would promise.”

10. “Ah!” said she, “he is in trouble! What has he done?”

11. “Utterson, I swear to God,” cried the doctor, “I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do no t know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe, mark my words, he will never more be heard of.”

12. “I have had a lesson–O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!”

13. “Well, sir,” returned the clerk, “there’s a rather singular resemblance; the two hands are in many points identical: only differently sloped.”

14. “I have had a shock,” he said, “and I shall never recover. It is a question of weeks. Well, life has been pleasant; I liked it; yes, sir, I used to like it. I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.”

15. “You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”

16. “I think there’s been foul play.”

17. “For God’s sake,” he added, “find me some of the old.”

18. “We have come too late,” he said sternly, “whether to save or to punish. Hyde is gone to his account; and it only remains for us to find the body of your master.”

19. “Have you got it?” he cried. “Have you got it?”

20. “What he told me in the next our, I cannot bring my mind to set on paper. I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer. 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, and I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous.”

21. “. . . I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”

22. “My devil had long be caged, he came out roaring.”

23. “Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.”