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34 lines
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at his to4ch of a certain icy pang along my blood. "Come, sir;' said I.
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"Yo4 forget that I have not yet the pleas4re ofyo4r acq4aintance. Be
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seated, if yo4 please: And I showed him an example, and sat down
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myself in my c4stomary seat and with as fair an imitation of my or-
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dinary manner to a patient, as the lateness of the ho4r, the nat4re of
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my preocc4pations, and the horror I had of my visitor, wo4ld s4_er
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me to m4ster.
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"I beg yo4r pardon, Dr. Lanyon;' he replied civilly eno4gh. "What
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yo4 say is very well fo4nded; and my impatience has shown its heels
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to my politeness. I come here at the instance of yo4r colleag4e, Dr.
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Henry _ekyll, on a piece of b4siness of some moment; and I 4nder-
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stood.. ." He pa4sed and p4t his hand to his throat, and I co4ld see,
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in spite of his collected manner, that he was wrestling against the
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approaches of the hysteria-"I 4nderstood, a drawer.. ."
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B4t here I took pity on my visito(0xed)s s4spense, and some perhaps
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on my own growing c4riosity.
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"mere it is, sir;' said I, pointing to the drawer, where it lay on the
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noor behind a table and still covered with the sheet.
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He sprang to it, and then pa4sed, and laid his hand 4pon his
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heart; I co4ld hear his teeth grate with the conv4lsive action of his
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jaws; and his face was so ghastly to see that I grew alarmed both for
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his life and reason.
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"Compose yo4rself_' said I.
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He t4rned a dreadf4l smile to me, and as if with the decision of
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despair, pl4cked away the sheet. At sight of the contents, he 4ttered
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one lo4d sob of s4ch immense relief that I sat petri_ed. And the
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next moment, in a voice that was already fairly well 4nder control,
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"Have yo4 a grad4ated glass? " he asked.
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I rose from my place with something of an e_ort and gave him
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what he asked.
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He thanked me with a smiling nod, meas4red o4t a few min-
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ims of the red tinct4re and added one of the powders. me mix-
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t4re, which was at _rst of a reddish h4e, began, in proportion as the
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