Chapter 10 - Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case

• with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future.
• the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition
• I concealed my pleasures
• I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life
• but from the high views that I had set before me, I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame.
• man’s dual nature.
• both sides of me were in dead earnest
• man is not truly one, but truly two.
• I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man
• If each, I told myself, could but be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable
• a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death.
• Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness.
• There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new
• I felt younger, lighter, happier in body
• More wicked, tenfold more wicked
• Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter and younger than Henry Jekyll
• The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine
• my new power tempted me until I fell in slavery.
• like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty
• a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion, would be Henry Jekyll
• a being inherently malign and villainous
• It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty. Jekyll was no worse
• lean, corded, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair. It was the hand of Edward Hyde.
• my blood was changed into something exquisitely thin and icy.
• The power of voluntary change be forfeited, and the character of Edward Hyde become irrevocably mine.
• 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.
• I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.
• Jekyll had more than a father‘s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.
• I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor
• in an hour of moral weakness
• My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.
• in my case, to be tempted, however slightly, was to fall.
• I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow
• struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.
• the animal within me licking the chops of memory
• He, I say – I cannot say, I. That child of Hell had nothing human
• It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me.
• I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
• title of chapter 10

  Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case