Jekyll and Hyde: Annotation-Friendly Edition for Schools (KS3/KS4/GCSE)

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That's very well said," returned the lawyer; "and whatever comes of it, I shall make it my business to see you are no loser ." In early March, Jekyll's butler, Mr Poole, visits Utterson and says Jekyll has secluded himself in his laboratory for weeks. Utterson and Poole break into the laboratory, where they find Hyde's body wearing Jekyll's clothes, apparently having killed himself. They find a letter from Jekyll to Utterson. Utterson reads Lanyon's letter, then Jekyll's.

You have read and understand this Agreement and agree that it constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the Agreement between us with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement. 12. Law and Disputesa b Balfour, Graham (1912). The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. Vol.II. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp.15–6 . Retrieved 28 December 2012. Codes are used to transfer access provisions to other users. School customers will be given Codes on printed vouchers so they can provide students with access to titles. But Lanyon's face changed , and he held up a trembling hand. "I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll," he said in a loud, unsteady voice. "I am quite done with that person; and I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead." Utterson, the lawyer, tells his friend Enfield that sometimes it's best to mind one's own business, but he does want to know the name of the man who ran down the child. Enfield tells him that "it was a man of the name of Hyde." Asked to describe Hyde, Enfield finds it difficult because the man had "something wrong with his appearance, something displeasing, something downright detestable." Well, I shall consider," returned the lawyer. "And now one word more: it was Hyde who dictated the terms in your will about that disappearance?"

Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance . . . the last good influence in the lives of down-going men. See Important Quotations ExplainedStevenson had long been intrigued by the idea of how human personalities can reflect the interplay of good and evil. While still a teenager, he developed a script for a play about William Brodie, which he later reworked with the help of W. E. Henley and which was produced for the first time in 1882. [3] In early 1884, he wrote the short story " Markheim", which he revised in 1884 for publication in a Christmas annual.