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371
I
next
drew
up
that
will
to
which
you
so
much
objected
;
so
that
if
anything
befell
me
in
the
person
of
Dr.
Jekyll
,
I
could
enter
on
that
of
Edward
Hyde
without
pecuniary
loss
.
And
thus
fortified
,
as
I
supposed
,
on
every
side
,
I
began
to
profit
by
the
strange
immunities
of
my
position
.
372
Men
have
before
hired
bravos
to
transact
their
crimes
,
while
their
own
person
and
reputation
sat
under
shelter
.
I
was
the
first
that
ever
did
so
for
his
pleasures
.
I
was
the
first
that
could
thus
plod
in
the
public
eye
with
a
load
of
genial
respectability
,
and
in
a
moment
,
like
a
schoolboy
,
strip
off
these
lendings
and
spring
headlong
into
the
sea
of
liberty
.
But
for
me
,
in
my
impenetrable
mantle
,
the
safety
was
complete
.
Think
of
it
--
I
did
not
even
exist
!
Let
me
but
escape
into
my
laboratory
door
,
give
me
but
a
second
or
two
to
mix
and
swallow
the
draught
that
I
had
always
standing
ready
;
and
whatever
he
had
done
,
Edward
Hyde
would
pass
away
like
the
stain
of
breath
upon
a
mirror
;
and
there
in
his
stead
,
quietly
at
home
,
trimming
the
midnight
lamp
in
his
study
,
a
man
who
could
afford
to
laugh
at
suspicion
,
would
be
Henry
Jekyll
.
373
The
pleasures
which
I
made
haste
to
seek
in
my
disguise
were
,
as
I
have
said
,
undignified
;
I
would
scarce
use
a
harder
term
.
But
in
the
hands
of
Edward
Hyde
,
they
soon
began
to
turn
toward
the
monstrous
.
When
I
would
come
back
from
these
excursions
,
I
was
often
plunged
into
a
kind
of
wonder
at
my
vicarious
depravity
.
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374
This
familiar
that
I
called
out
of
my
own
soul
,
and
sent
forth
alone
to
do
his
good
pleasure
,
was
a
being
inherently
malign
and
villainous
;
his
every
act
and
thought
centred
on
self
;
drinking
pleasure
with
bestial
avidity
from
any
degree
of
torture
to
another
;
relentless
like
a
man
of
stone
.
Henry
Jekyll
stood
at
times
aghast
before
the
acts
of
Edward
Hyde
;
but
the
situation
was
apart
from
ordinary
laws
,
and
insidiously
relaxed
the
grasp
of
conscience
.
It
was
Hyde
,
after
all
,
and
Hyde
alone
,
that
was
guilty
.
Jekyll
was
no
worse
;
he
woke
again
to
his
good
qualities
seemingly
unimpaired
;
he
would
even
make
haste
,
where
it
was
possible
,
to
undo
the
evil
done
by
Hyde
.
And
thus
his
conscience
slumbered
.
375
Into
the
details
of
the
infamy
at
which
I
thus
connived
(
for
even
now
I
can
scarce
grant
that
I
committed
it
)
I
have
no
design
of
entering
;
I
mean
but
to
point
out
the
warnings
and
the
successive
steps
with
which
my
chastisement
approached
.
I
met
with
one
accident
which
,
as
it
brought
on
no
consequence
,
I
shall
no
more
than
mention
.
An
act
of
cruelty
to
a
child
aroused
against
me
the
anger
of
a
passer-by
,
whom
I
recognised
the
other
day
in
the
person
of
your
kinsman
;
the
doctor
and
the
child
's
family
joined
him
;
there
were
moments
when
I
feared
for
my
life
;
and
at
last
,
in
order
to
pacify
their
too
just
resentment
,
Edward
Hyde
had
to
bring
them
to
the
door
,
and
pay
them
in
a
cheque
drawn
in
the
name
of
Henry
Jekyll
.
376
But
this
danger
was
easily
eliminated
from
the
future
,
by
opening
an
account
at
another
bank
in
the
name
of
Edward
Hyde
himself
;
and
when
,
by
sloping
my
own
hand
backward
,
I
had
supplied
my
double
with
a
signature
,
I
thought
I
sat
beyond
the
reach
of
fate
.
377
Some
two
months
before
the
murder
of
Sir
Danvers
,
I
had
been
out
for
one
of
my
adventures
,
had
returned
at
a
late
hour
,
and
woke
the
next
day
in
bed
with
somewhat
odd
sensations
.
It
was
in
vain
I
looked
about
me
;
in
vain
I
saw
the
decent
furniture
and
tall
proportions
of
my
room
in
the
square
;
in
vain
that
I
recognised
the
pattern
of
the
bed-curtains
and
the
design
of
the
mahogany
frame
;
something
still
kept
insisting
that
I
was
not
where
I
was
,
that
I
had
not
wakened
where
I
seemed
to
be
,
but
in
the
little
room
in
Soho
where
I
was
accustomed
to
sleep
in
the
body
of
Edward
Hyde
.
I
smiled
to
myself
,
and
,
in
my
psychological
way
began
lazily
to
inquire
into
the
elements
of
this
illusion
,
occasionally
,
even
as
I
did
so
,
dropping
back
into
a
comfortable
morning
doze
.
I
was
still
so
engaged
when
,
in
one
of
my
more
wakeful
moments
,
my
eyes
fell
upon
my
hand
.
Now
the
hand
of
Henry
Jekyll
(
as
you
have
often
remarked
)
was
professional
in
shape
and
size
:
it
was
large
,
firm
,
white
,
and
comely
.
But
the
hand
which
I
now
saw
,
clearly
enough
,
in
the
yellow
light
of
a
mid-London
morning
,
lying
half
shut
on
the
bed-clothes
,
was
lean
,
corded
,
knuckly
,
of
a
dusky
pallor
and
thickly
shaded
with
a
swart
growth
of
hair
.
It
was
the
hand
of
Edward
Hyde
.
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378
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
.
At
the
sight
that
met
my
eyes
,
my
blood
was
changed
into
something
exquisitely
thin
and
icy
.
Yes
,
I
had
gone
to
bed
Henry
Jekyll
,
I
had
awakened
Edward
Hyde
.
How
was
this
to
be
explained
?
I
asked
myself
,
and
then
,
with
another
bound
of
terror
--
how
was
it
to
be
remedied
?
It
was
well
on
in
the
morning
;
the
servants
were
up
;
all
my
drugs
were
in
the
cabinet
--
a
long
journey
down
two
pairs
of
stairs
,
through
the
back
passage
,
across
the
open
court
and
through
the
anatomical
theatre
,
from
where
I
was
then
standing
horror-struck
.
It
might
indeed
be
possible
to
cover
my
face
;
but
of
what
use
was
that
,
when
I
was
unable
to
conceal
the
alteration
in
my
stature
?
And
then
with
an
overpowering
sweetness
of
relief
,
it
came
back
upon
my
mind
that
the
servants
were
already
used
to
the
coming
and
going
of
my
second
self
.
I
had
soon
dressed
,
as
well
as
I
was
able
,
in
clothes
of
my
own
size
:
had
soon
passed
through
the
house
,
where
Bradshaw
stared
and
drew
back
at
seeing
Mr.
Hyde
at
such
an
hour
and
in
such
a
strange
array
;
and
ten
minutes
later
,
Dr.
Jekyll
had
returned
to
his
own
shape
and
was
sitting
down
,
with
a
darkened
brow
,
to
make
a
feint
of
breakfasting
.
379
Small
indeed
was
my
appetite
.
380
This
inexplicable
incident
,
this
reversal
of
my
previous
experience
,
seemed
,
like
the
Babylonian
finger
on
the
wall
,
to
be
spelling
out
the
letters
of
my
judgment
;
and
I
began
to
reflect
more
seriously
than
ever
before
on
the
issues
and
possibilities
of
my
double
existence
.
That
part
of
me
which
I
had
the
power
of
projecting
,
had
lately
been
much
exercised
and
nourished
;
it
had
seemed
to
me
of
late
as
though
the
body
of
Edward
Hyde
had
grown
in
stature
,
as
though
(
when
I
wore
that
form
)
I
were
conscious
of
a
more
generous
tide
of
blood
;
and
I
began
to
spy
a
danger
that
,
if
this
were
much
prolonged
,
the
balance
of
my
nature
might
be
permanently
overthrown
,
the
power
of
voluntary
change
be
forfeited
,
and
the
character
of
Edward
Hyde
become
irrevocably
mine
.
The
power
of
the
drug
had
not
been
always
equally
displayed
.
Once
,
very
early
in
my
career
,
it
had
totally
failed
me
;
since
then
I
had
been
obliged
on
more
than
one
occasion
to
double
,
and
once
,
with
infinite
risk
of
death
,
to
treble
the
amount
;
and
these
rare
uncertainties
had
cast
hitherto
the
sole
shadow
on
my
contentment
.
Now
,
however
,
and
in
the
light
of
that
morning
's
accident
,
I
was
led
to
remark
that
whereas
,
in
the
beginning
,
the
difficulty
had
been
to
throw
off
the
body
of
Jekyll
,
it
had
of
late
gradually
but
decidedly
transferred
itself
to
the
other
side
.
All
things
therefore
seemed
to
point
to
this
:
that
I
was
slowly
losing
hold
of
my
original
and
better
self
,
and
becoming
slowly
incorporated
with
my
second
and
worse
.