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1Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting
2delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my
3delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror. A mist dispersed; I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled
4from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated, my love of
5life screwed to the topmost peg. I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers;
6thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly
7devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger.
8Hyde had a song upon his lips as he compounded the draught, and as he drank it, pledged the dead man. The pangs of
9transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen
10upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God. The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my
11life as a whole: I followed it up from the days of childhood, when I had walked with my father's hand, and through the
12self-denying toils of my professional life, to arrive again and again, with the same sense of unreality, at the damned
13horrors of the evening. I could have screamed aloud; I sought with tears and prayers to smother down the crowd of
14hideous images and sounds with which my memory swarmed against me; and still, between the petitions, the ugly face of my
15iniquity stared into my soul. As the acuteness of this remorse began to die away, it was succeeded by a sense of joy.
16The problem of my conduct was solved. Hyde was thenceforth impossible; whether I would or not, I was now confined to the
17better part of my existence; and O, how I rejoiced to think of it! with what willing humility I embraced anew the
18restrictions of natural life! with what sincere renunciation I locked the door by which I had so often gone and come,
19and ground the key under my heel! The next day, came the news that the murder had not been overlooked, that the guilt of
20Hyde was patent to the world, and that the victim was a man high in public estimation. It was not only a crime, it had
21been a tragic folly. I think I was glad to know it; I think I was glad to have my better impulses thus buttressed and
22guarded by the terrors of the scaffold. Jekyll was now my city of refuge; let but Hyde peep out an instant, and the
23hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him. I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say
24with honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good. You know yourself how earnestly, in the last months of the last
25year, I laboured to relieve suffering; you know that much was done for others, and that the days passed quietly, almost
26happily for myself. Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I
27daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my
28penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence. Not
29that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person that
30I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before
31the assaults of temptation. There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this
32brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul. And yet I was not alarmed; the fall seemed
33natural, like a return to the old days before I had made my discovery. It was a fine, clear, January day, wet under foot
34where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead; and the Regent's Park was full of winter chirrupings and sweet with
35spring odours. I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a
36little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. After all, I reflected, I was like my
37neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active good-will with the lazy cruelty of
38their neglect. And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most
39deadly shuddering. These passed away, and left me faint; and then as in its turn faintness subsided, I began to be aware
40of a change in the temper of my thoughts, a greater boldness, a contempt of danger, a solution of the bonds of
41obligation. I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and
42hairy. I was once more Edward Hyde. A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved--the cloth
43laying for me in the dining-room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known
44murderer, thrall to the gallows. My reason wavered, but it did not fail me utterly. I have more than once observed that
45in my second character, my faculties seemed sharpened to a point and my spirits more tensely elastic; thus it came about
46that, where Jekyll perhaps might have succumbed, Hyde rose to the importance of the moment. My drugs were in one of the
47presses of my cabinet; how was I to reach them? That was the problem that (crushing my temples in my hands) I set myself
48to solve. The laboratory door I had closed. If I sought to enter by the house, my own servants would consign me to the
49gallows. I saw I must employ another hand, and thought of Lanyon. How was he to be reached? how persuaded? Supposing
50that I escaped capture in the streets, how was I to make my way into his presence? and how should I, an unknown and
51displeasing visitor, prevail on the famous physician to rifle the study of his colleague, Dr. Jekyll? Then I remembered
52that of my original character, one part remained to me: I could write my own hand; and once I had conceived that
53kindling spark, the way that I must follow became lighted up from end to end.
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