Chapter 2: Search for Mr Hyde

Utterson worries about Jekyll's will, which leaves everything to Hyde. He waits by the door and meets Hyde. He hates him on sight.

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UttersonhuntsdownMrHyde

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If he be Mr. Hyde," he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

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Utterson makes a joke of the name. He will hunt Hyde down.

the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?

Utterson · Chapter 2: Search for Mr Hyde · evil · science

Hyde seems less than human. Like a cave man. A creature from before people.

Poor Harry Jekyll," he thought, "my mind misgives me he is in deep waters!

Utterson · Chapter 2: Search for Mr Hyde · secrecy · reputation

Utterson thinks his friend is in trouble. He guesses blackmail. He is wrong, but not far wrong.

Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation

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Small, pale, and somehow wrong, but nothing you could point to.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it

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Utterson tries not to be curious. He cannot help it.