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Quotes from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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1 It was locked; and lying near by on the flags, they found the key, already stained with rust.
2 Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building, and the red baize door leaped against the lock and hinges.
3 But no sooner was Mr. Utterson alone that night than he locked the note into his safe, where it reposed from that time forward.
4 The door was very strong, the lock excellent; the carpenter avowed he would have great trouble and have to do much damage, if force were to be used; and the locksmith was near despair.
5 The night after the funeral, at which he had been sadly affected, Utterson locked the door of his business room, and sitting there by the light of a melancholy candle, drew out and set before him an envelope addressed by the hand and sealed with the seal of his dead friend.
6 Up went the axe again, and again the panels crashed and the frame bounded; four times the blow fell; but the wood was tough and the fittings were of excellent workmanship; and it was not until the fifth, that the lock burst in sunder and the wreck of the door fell inwards on the carpet.
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