The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 5

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Robert Louis Stevenson. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 5

MORE NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS. THE DYNAMITER

MORE NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS. THE DYNAMITER

PROLOGUE OF THE CIGAR DIVAN

CHALLONER’S ADVENTURE:

THE SQUIRE OF DAMES

STORY OF THE DESTROYING ANGEL

THE SQUIRE OF DAMES (concluded)

SOMERSET’S ADVENTURE

THE SUPERFLUOUS MANSION

NARRATIVE OF THE SPIRITED OLD LADY

THE SUPERFLUOUS MANSION (continued)

ZERO’S TALE OF THE EXPLOSIVE BOMB4

THE SUPERFLUOUS MANSION (continued)

DESBOROUGH’S ADVENTURE

THE BROWN BOX

STORY OF THE FAIR CUBAN

THE BROWN BOX (concluded)

THE SUPERFLUOUS MANSION (concluded)

EPILOGUE OF THE CIGAR DIVAN

STRANGE CASE OF. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

STORY OF THE DOOR

SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE

DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE

THE CAREW MURDER CASE

INCIDENT OF THE LETTER

REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON

INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW

THE LAST NIGHT

DR. LANYON’S NARRATIVE

HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE

THRAWN JANET

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In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before posterity silent, Mr. Forster’s appeal echoing down the ages. Horror is due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted with political crime; not seriously weighing, not acutely following it from cause to consequence; but with a generous, unfounded heat of sentiment, like the schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding what was specious. When it touched ourselves (truly in a vile shape), we proved false to these imaginations; discovered, in a clap, that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names; and recoiled from our false deities.

But seriousness comes most in place when we are to speak of our defenders. Whoever be in the right in this great and confused war of politics; whatever elements of greed, whatever traits of the bully, dishonour both parties in this inhuman contest; – your side, your part, is at least pure of doubt. Yours is the side of the child, of the breeding woman, of individual pity and public trust. If our society were the mere kingdom of the devil (as indeed it wears some of his colours), it yet embraces many precious elements and many innocent persons whom itis a glory to defend. Courage and devotion, so common in the ranks of the police, so little recognised, so meagrely rewarded, have at length found their commemoration in an historical act. History, which will represent Mr. Parnell sitting silent under the appeal of Mr. Forster, and Gordon setting forth upon his tragic enterprise, will not forget Mr. Cole carrying the dynamite in his defenceless hands, nor Mr. Cox coming coolly to his aid.

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So, bidding us dress for the road, he took a lamp (for the night had now fallen) and set off to the stable to prepare our horses.

“What does it mean? – what will become of us?” I cried.

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