1 It is possible that the postoffice may fail me, and this letter not come into your hands until to-morrow morning.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE 2 So far the letter had run composedly enough, but here with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT 3 The lawyer liked this letter well enough; it put a better colour on the intimacy than he had looked for; and he blamed himself for some of his past suspicions.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER 4 Upon the reading of this letter, I made sure my colleague was insane; but till that was proved beyond the possibility of doubt, I felt bound to do as he requested.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE 5 The butler was awaiting my arrival; he had received by the same post as mine a registered letter of instruction, and had sent at once for a locksmith and a carpenter.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE 6 Plainly the letter had come by the laboratory door; possibly, indeed, it had been written in the cabinet; and if that were so, it must be differently judged, and handled with the more caution.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER 7 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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 8 Yet the creature was astute; mastered his fury with a great effort of the will; composed his two important letters, one to Lanyon and one to Poole; and that he might receive actual evidence of their being posted, sent them out with directions that they should be registered.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 9 Hence the ape-like tricks that he would play me, scrawling in my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books, burning the letters and destroying the portrait of my father; and indeed, had it not been for his fear of death, he would long ago have ruined himself in order to involve me in the ruin.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE