The strange case of DrJekyll and MrHudeIllustrated by Charles Raymond Macauley . into the 181 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde midst of the nocturnal passengers, these twobase passions raged within him like a walked fast, hunted by his fears, chatter-ing to himself, skulking through the less fre-quented thoroughfares, counting the minutesthat still divided him from midnight. Oncea woman spoke to him, offering, I think, abox of lights. He smote her in the face, andshe fled. When I came to myself at Lanyons, thehorror of my old friend perhaps affected mesomewhat; I do not k
The strange case of DrJekyll and MrHudeIllustrated by Charles Raymond Macauley . into the 181 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde midst of the nocturnal passengers, these twobase passions raged within him like a walked fast, hunted by his fears, chatter-ing to himself, skulking through the less fre-quented thoroughfares, counting the minutesthat still divided him from midnight. Oncea woman spoke to him, offering, I think, abox of lights. He smote her in the face, andshe fled. When I came to myself at Lanyons, thehorror of my old friend perhaps affected mesomewhat; I do not know; it was at leastbut a drop in the sea to the abhorrence withwhich I looked back upon these hours. Achange had come over me. It was no longerthe fear of the gallows, it was the horror ofbeing Hyde that racked me. I receivedLanyons condemnation partly in a dream; itwas partly in a dream that I came home tomy own house and got into bed. I slept afterthe prostration of the day, with a stringentand profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to 182. Henry Jekylls Full Statement of the Case break. I awoke in the morning shaken,weakened, but refreshed. I still hated andfeared the thought of the brute that sleptwithin me, and I had not of course forgottenthe appalling dangers of the day before; butI was once more at home, in my own houseand close to my drugs; and gratitude for myescape shone so strong in my soul that it al-most rivalled the brightness of hope. I was stepping leisurely across the courtafter breakfast, drinking the chill of theair with pleasure, when I was seized againwith those indescribable sensations that her-alded the change; and I had but the time togain the shelter of my cabinet before I wasonce again raging and freezing with the pas-sions of Hyde. It took on this occasion adouble dose to recall me to myself; and alas!six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in thefire, the pangs returned, and the drug had tobe readministered. In sho
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