Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
From Chapter 2
1.
MAKE TEN CONNECTIONS TO EXCERPT USING COMMENT BOXES (cntrl+alt+m).
LABEL THE COMMENT BOX
ÒCONNECTIONS.Ó
2. ASK FIVE QUESTIONS OF THE EXCERPT. Do this by typing the question in green next to the text.
3.
DEFINE THE VOCABULARY
WORDS. Type the definition in blue at the end of the line.
4.
HIGHLIGHT THREE
QUOTES THAT REVEAL CHARACTERIZATION IN TURQOISE.
5. Type what is
revealed about the character in purple at the end of the line.
From
that time forward, Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of
shops. In the morning before office hours, at noon when business was plenty,
and time scarce,
at night under the face of the fogged city moon, by all lights and at all hours
of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post.
"If
he be Mr. Hyde," he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek."
And
at last his patience was rewarded. It was a fine dry night; frost in the air; the
streets as clean as a ballroom floor; the lamps, unshaken by any wind, drawing a regular
pattern of light and shadow. By ten o'clock, when the shops were closed the
by-street was very solitary and, in spite of the low growl of London from all
round, very silent. Small sounds carried far; domestic sounds out of the houses
were clearly audible on either side of the roadway; and the rumour of the
approach of any passenger preceded him by a long time. Mr. Utterson had been
some minutes at his post, when he was aware of an odd light footstep drawing
near. In the course of his nightly patrols, he had long grown accustomed to the
quaint effect with which the footfalls of a single person, while he is still a
great way off, suddenly spring out distinct from the vast hum and clatter of
the city. Yet his attention had never before been so sharply and decisively
arrested; and it was with a strong, superstitious prevision of success that he withdrew
into the entry of the court.
The
steps drew swiftly
nearer, and swelled out suddenly louder as they turned the end of the street.
The lawyer, looking
forth from the entry, could soon see what manner of
man he had to deal with. He was small and very plainly dressed and the look of
him, even at that distance, went somehow strongly against the watcher's inclination. But he made straight for the
door, crossing the roadway to save time; and as he came, he drew a key from his
pocket like one approaching home.
Mr.
Utterson stepped out and touched him on the shoulder as he passed. "Mr.
Hyde, I think?"
Mr.
Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath. But his fear was only
momentary; and though he did not look the lawyer in the face, he answered
coolly enough: "That is my name. What do you want?"
"I
see you are going in," returned the lawyer. "I am an old friend of
Dr. Jekyll's -- Mr. Utterson of Gaunt Street -- you must have heard of my name; and meeting
you so conveniently, I thought you might admit me."
"You
will not find Dr. Jekyll; he is from home," replied Mr. Hyde, blowing in
the key. And then suddenly, but still without looking up, "How did you
know me?" he asked.
"On
your side," said Mr. Utterson "will you do me a favour?"
"With
pleasure," replied the other. "What shall it be?"
"Will
you let me see your face?" asked the lawyer.
Mr.
Hyde appeared to hesitate, and then, as if upon some sudden reflection, fronted
about with an air of defiance; and the pair stared at each other pretty fixedly
for a few seconds. "Now I shall know you again," said Mr. Utterson.
"It may be useful."
"Yes,"
returned Mr. Hyde, "lt is as well we have met; and
a propos,
you should have my address." And he gave a number of a street in Soho.
"Good
God!" thought Mr. Utterson, "can he, too, have been thinking of the
will?" But he kept his feelings to himself and only grunted in
acknowledgment of the address.
"And
now," said the other, "how did you know me?"
"By
description," was the reply.
"Whose
description?"
"We
have common friends," said Mr. Utterson.
"Common
friends," echoed Mr. Hyde, a little hoarsely. "Who are they?"
"Jekyll,
for instance," said the lawyer.
"He
never told you," cried Mr. Hyde, with a flush of anger. "I did not
think you would have lied."
"Come,"
said Mr. Utterson, "that is not fitting language."
The
other snarled aloud into a savage laugh; and the next moment, with
extraordinary quickness, he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the
house.
The lawyer stood awhile when Mr. Hyde had left him, the picture of disquietude. Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity. The problem he was thus debating as he walked, was one of a class that is rarely solved. Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr. Utterson regarded him. "There must be something else," said the perplexed gentleman. "There is something more, if I could find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say? or can it be the old story of Dr. Fell? or is it the mere radience of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent? The last, I think; for, O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend."