The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

long as I had considered my position, made enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility and insensate readiness to evil, which were the leading characters of Edward Hyde.

Yet it was by these that I was punished.

I suppose, that stirred in my soul that tempest of impatience with which I listened to the civilities of my unhappy victim; I declare, at least, before God, no man morally sane could have been guilty of that crime upon so pitiful a provocation;

Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged.

Should the throes of change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces;

God knows; I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself.

I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.