"Mummy!" "Volume Ii, Chapter 12." ""Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes," ""while their own person and reputation sat under shelter."" "BarthoIomew, feed the horses and don't leave the carriage." " You will eat here." " Yes, Madam." " Good evening." " Don't touch it, it's fragile." " Please, come in." " Good evening, Poole." " No, I'll keep it, it's fragile." " It's so warm in here." "It's a gift, something very precious." "I can guess." "Most certainly a Venetian mirror." "You're mistaken, Poole." "Quite mistaken." "Don't climb so fast, you'll fall." "No, Mother." "Never!" "First of all, say hello to your mother-in-Iaw." "Yes, Mother." "Henry, Fanny is here." "Henry!" "Haven't you finished yet?" "Henry?" "It's me." "It was wrapped up with care." " Vermeer van Delft!" " My daughter's dowry." "A marvel!" " My dearest..." " I love you." " These slippers hurt." " Don't exaggerate, Vicky." "Ladies and gentlemen, if you care to follow me:" "the golden book is at your disposal." "I love you." " He's looking." " Who?" "Your pater." "Fanny!" "I'Il let her in, we'll have the whole night for us." "all night!" "Τill dawn?" " A whole night of pleasure." " Yes, till dawn." "Dreadful weather!" "I'm freezing." "Tomorrow the weather will improve." "Congratulations, Madam." "Congratulations!" "Congratulations, Miss." "What unbridled joy!" "Truly a transcendental engagement." "I've already bought your magnificent book, Doctor JekylI." "I'd like to see the face of your opponents." "Doctor Lanyon has not arrived yet?" " Did you read it already?" " Obviously." "I'm going to read it for the second time." "After this, of course." "Are you encouraging me to write novels?" "A love story?" "Thank you, Doctor Lanyon." "Good evening." " Long live peace, Doctor." " The armistice, Reverend." "Thank you for having kept it for me." "May I?" "Me, too?" "Very good, Vicky!" "Congratulations, Madam." "Your left hand was perfect." "A great performance!" "Let's leave poetry, and go to the prosaic table." "Without prose it is hard to appreciate poetry." "In the Bible it is written..." "Please stand back, there is nothing to see." "According to Kant, we are free individuals, independent from phenomena." "In his system, time and space are transcendental concepts." "In the language of Scholasticism, "transcendence" means an elevation of man over all categories and qualities susceptible of being general." "Your reference to scholasticism is regrettable, dear Doctor." "It is impossible to detach transcendental elements from knowledge." "It is unthinkable to study our faculties in metaphysical terms." "Only charlatans assert that they know how to transform sand into gold." "No, thanks." "We are no longer in the Middle Ages, my friend." "After us science is neither aprioric nor aprioristic." "Nature doesn't make mistakes." "The general laws of the organism don't tolerate metaphysical connections." "Excuse me... "Don't tolerate metaphysical connections?"" "Dr Lanyon, how do you explain illnesses healed in a transcendental state?" "A state elsewhere than the tangible world." "Miracles always take place when we're not there." "Don't you think that this sentence is enough to answer your question?" "certainly not." "And if you ask me it is a bit too simplistic." "The easiest way..." "is to believe... to be a believer." "For you atheism is the height of courage." "In today's society it takes great courage." "You are a minority, but, thank God, it is the majority who decides." "Politics and religion are sensitive issues." "Why don't we speak about books?" "Yes." "What about books?" "Your book..." "Your theory is absurd, dear Doctor Jekyll..." "Not even you believe in transcendental medicine." "You would like to reach the alchemic goal, by using modern scientific results obtained by others." "Don't you think?" "You are wrong, dear Doctor." "I'm the best witness to know how long Henry stays in his laboratory." "Dark, full of smoke and noxious vapours..." "You don't act like that if you're not convinced by a superior idea." "Doctor Jekyll is not a thief." "Fanny, please..." "Don't take a serious business discussion for a petty feud." "You are cruel, Doctor." "Maybe, but thinking of a surgeon who hurts in order to save..." "Yes, the operation was successful, the patient died." "We published this book in the conviction that it will open new paths in our country." "It isn't a compromise, you know, it's a true revelation." "Maybe." "Lighting a cigar, taking a puff of smoke, this makes admitting failure easier." "certainly not." "Certainly..." "Maybe in future we will have the proof. I hope." "Once more I want to stress that transcendental medicine and chemistry aren't mutually exclusive." "I assure you." "Chemistry doesn't condition our bodies." "It helps our bodies to reach a state where they can receive grace." "Amen." "Our dancer is sleepy." "Cigar smoke and lack of oxygen:" "this is the result." "The poor girl has rehearsed all week to dance tonight." "Take her to bed in the pink bedroom." "Poole, fetch the key to the pink bedroom and make the bed for Miss Victoria." "The management and supply of a modern laboratory, I stress "modern", requires considerable efforts on my behalf." "Mr Maw can confirm how many chemical products Poole has bought for his master's laboratory." "Certainly." "I delivered to Doctor JekyIl many kilos of chlorodezicarbonoxigeniferum," "Four and a half kilos of mercury." "And this without taking into account his last order." "And Mr Maw will once more confirm that this costs a small fortune, that now is flowing in the waters of the river Τhames, after the failure of many experiments." "Do you think I so easily throw money into the water, Doctor?" "Do you think I am just playing with chemistry in my lab?" "I no longer am a chemistry professor." "It's three years since I retired." "Rest assured, my dear colleague, that I will stop my experiments only when you're totally convinced that transcendental chemistry isn't a threat to empiricism." "On the contrary, it's an experience that allows to open the path to transcendence." "Stop making war to each other, only peace assures progress." "Bravo, General!" "Bravo!" "To protect her from the flies." "Not even a military march would wake her up." "Adorable child!" " l hope they are all still there." " Yes, sir." "Dinner's finished, but coffee hasn't been served yet." "Doctor, excuse my harsh words, but our friendship has to stay intact." "It's better to have a honourable adversary than to hear flattering, but suspicious words." "I think that sometimes we need to be flattered, there are moments when lies are beneficial." " Here's a new therapy." " New?" " lt's the oldest in the world." " Dear Fanny..." "You are a monster, an incredibly deformed creature, the very incarnation of ugliness." "That's enough, General!" "It shortens my long winter evenings." "In fact I already wrote two novels." "One with 300 pages, the other with 600, but it can easily be abridged to 450." " Do you already have the titles?" " Of course." "The title for the first one is:" "The Tale of Tod Lapraik." "As for second one, the 600 page novel:" "Olalia the Lonely." " A love story?" " Not at all." "No women among the characters." "Friendship yes, but not love." "A seven- or eight-year-old girl, pretty, blonde." "We haven't identified her." "I found her doll by her side, together with a broken stick." "she was hit with extraordinary strength." "There's no need to hit a child so hard." "Show me." " Her dress was torn?" " Obviously he wanted to rape her." "Thank God, he didn't succeed." "It's terrible!" "He didn't manage to undress her totally." "Her virginity is intact." "She will certainly recover, but she is still unconscious." "Our Police!" "Everybody knows that London is very poorly lit." "My parliamentary commission has spent six years battling to get extra street lights." " ls there a doctor in the ambulance?" " Yes, a doctor from the city hospital." "We'll read it tomorrow in the newspapers." "Even if they don't ask me, I'll personally take care of this business." "Sorry if I disturbed you..." "Pregnant Woman Reading a Letter by Vermeer van Delft." "A present from Lady Osbourne to Henry, the fiancé of her daughter Fanny." "I know all Vermeer's paintings, but I never saw this one." "For 200 years, this painting was hidden in the basement of Glasgow's town hall." " Where did you buy it, Mrs Osbourne?" " At an auction." " What was its initial price?" " 23,000." "wonderful!" "The triumph of mankind." "What was the Iast price?" "What an impertinent question!" " The perplexity of science." " Exactly." " Transcendence." " Fanny!" "Transcendence?" "Yes, you're right." "The seventh month of pregnancy." "I accept the job, but refuse to write the text." " Τhe text is ready." " Would you like to show it to me?" "I thought notaries preferred holograph wills." "That's right." ""I, Henry Jekyll, doctor of medicine, doctor of civil law," ""specialist in forensic medicine," ""member of the Royal society, decide that, in case I die," ""all my belongings will go to my friend and benefactor, Edward Hyde." ""signed:" "Dr Henry Jekyll."" "I've never had the pleasure of meeting Mr Edward Hyde." "No, but I'll certainly introduce him to you soon." "I understand Mr Hyde is your friend, but Miss Osbourne, your future wife," "Mrs Jekyll, your mother, and all your servants..." "I hope you haven't forgotten them." "No, I'm not selfishly forgetting them, nor am I trying to trick them." "The distribution of my belongings to all my dears will be carried out by Edward Hyde according to a separate contract." "He won't betray me, I swear on my own body." "I completely trust you and wish you to live to 1 00 years." "1 00 years?" "Thank you." "And among Henry's new acquisitions, a very rare piece:" "this 1 3th century helmet." " The beauty of terror." " The calculation of collective fear." " The work of an evil artist." " Or of an angel artist." "If we admit that weapons are made to defend virtues." "Unluckily people's virtues are so contradictory." "The love your son has for uncommon and beautiful things gave me the idea during my most recent expedition in the Dark Continent to bring back this object." "In honour of this engagement." "Thank you, General." "Beautiful and functional." "It's also dangerous:" "the arrows are poisoned." "Be careful, especially with the arrowhead." "The dye that impregnates them, although a century old, is still deadly." "This is what I've been told." "No fear, no fear..." "clearly, you aren't observant, Madam." "I touched the arrow with my forefinger, but I licked my middle finger." "Henry!" "Doctor Jekyll isn't as faithful as you imagine." "What do you mean?" "Doctor Jekyll isn't as faithful as he seems." "Henry!" "You mustn't confuse arrows from sudan with arrows from Egypt." "What's the difference?" "The former causes pain, the latter doesn't." "That's Fanny!" "What's going on?" "We mustn't waste time." "Dr Lanyon, Mr Enfield and Mr Maw, Mr Guest, save Miss Victoria." "Poole, take the ladies to a room and watch over them." "Yes, sir." "Enfield!" " After you." " l'm not armed, General." "Find yourself a weapon." "Get a sword from the collection." "Are you still hesitating?" "Go and carry out my orders." " Are you sleeping?" " The telephone line has been cut off." " send one of the servants to the police." " Yes, sir." "Henry!" "They opened the window on the ground floor." "Show me!" " What a disgrace!" "In our house!" " lt's not your fault." "You're alive, I'm so happy." "Did they hurt you?" "Yes." " It's not serious." " Yes, it will heal." "Aim at the head." "Again!" "Stop!" "Misfortune follows misfortune." "An innocent man has just been killed." "Killed?" "Who?" "We killed your coachman, Madam." "BarthoIomew died?" "I'm terribly sorry." "I know it's something terrible but..." "This is war." "It's like being at war." "The soldiers shoot and the Lord guides their bullets." "Dr Jekyll, go downstairs immediately, have the poor man resuscitated or certify his death." "Where?" "In the courtyard." "Mr Enfield, go with the doctor." "Is he bleeding?" "Bring cotton wool with you." "Henry, take this." "It's cold outside." "No, I'm not cold." " Please, Henry." " Don't insist, Mother." "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name." "Thy kingdom come." "Go to the police and tell them to hurry up and surround the house." " What time is it?" " Twenty past midnight." "I'll be back in an hour." ""..." "laceration of the hymen." ""Full stop." ""The vagina originally ten centimetres long" ""and two centimetres wide," ""widened and broken by the penis of an animal..." ""with a diameter of six centimetres" ""and about thirty centimetres long." ""The labia majora and minora, comma," ""the vestibule and the clitoris" ""are crushed and lacerated." "full stop."" "Go and hide yourselves." "Get in there, and lock the door." "Stay there until I tell you." "Charlotte, where are you?" "Close the doors immediately!" "Charlotte, go to your room." "To your room!" "Do you understand?" "Hurry up." "Are you bleeding?" "Give me some water." " There isn't any." " something liquid." "Perfume?" "Perfume and a cloth." "Hide yourself." "Don't come any further or I'll shoot." "Shoot if you still have a bullet!" "Shoot!" "Shoot!" "Do you hear me?" "Don't kill me." "I was just doing my duty." "I'm just Dr Jekyll's guest." "Don't kill me." "Next door there are some beautiful women." "I know where the doctor keeps his money..." "Mercy..." "You will see things that no-one dared to show you." "Step on them!" "step on them!" "Spit on them!" "Crush your general's medals!" "Spit on them!" "Spit on them!" "You thought you could trick me." "There are no secrets with me, maybe just one." "Don't try to move." "See, she's not defending herself." "Your daughter's ready." "You travelled during your career as a highly qualified soldier, but you never went this far." "You'lI go to paradise soon, old man." "Look." "Look over there." "Come!" "Come!" "Come!" "Look at your daughter, Daddy." "please, look, Daddy." "Scoundrel!" "Get him." "Mr Maw, Mr Guest... follow him." " General..." " Who is it?" "Mr Enfield, the publisher." "Untie your father, Miss." "Why are you standing there like that?" "I'm scared." "You're scared of me, your father?" "You want to punish me?" "I would never touch you, I give you my word for that." "Help!" "Lie on the machine!" "Doctor, Mr Maw needs help." "Would you Iike something to make you feel better?" "No, thanks, I don't need anything." "I've already taken all I need." "No, you need this." "Take it with some gin or whisky or even on its own." "Go on, swallow it." "Good!" "The coachman's heart beat for 20 minutes before his last breath." " A rare phenomenon." " terrible!" "Where is Mr Maw?" "Come!" "Come to the first floor." "Another rape... by some homosexual." "A completely morally depraved person." "Where is he now?" "He certainly likes to hide to remember his latest crime and to anticipate his next one." "He's a sick person." "What is it?" "The door is open?" "He went that way." "The butler!" "Close the door." "Dead." "The sword." "We sent him to the police." "Did he die before or after his mission?" "certainly before." "Is he still alive?" "Thank God!" "His belly is perforated." "The criminal's penis is excessively long and pointed." "Isn't it?" "Yes, according to Lanyon." "Who is it?" " Who is it?" " lt's me, Reverend Guest." "Any news?" "A letter for you... from Dr Jekyll." ""Dear Fanny, it will be impossible for us to meet tonight." ""Don't try to reach me." "Wait for me to get in touch." ""I'll write to you."" "We are preparing the evacuation." "Were the sleeping pills effective?" "I refused them." "So, didn't you sleep?" "sleep now?" "It would be suicide." "Don't force me, Reverend." "I need to ask you something, Miss." "What?" "Some black thread... and a needle." "Of course... one moment." "Thank you." "I'm coming!" " Bring Miss Victoria something to drink." " l'll call the General." "No, he's resting." "Where is Dr Jekyll?" "Go to Miss Victoria." "After the General failed, I took over the command." " Do you understand?" " Yes." " Go quickly." " And pray." "Yes, hatred." "Hatred..." "Dr Jekyll?" "Doctor?" "Doctor?" " unless he..." " What?" "I don't know..." "full of remorse because of the responsibility towards his guests..." "You think he committed suicide?" " lt isn't impossible." " l hear him." "He is waking up." "Open up, Doctor." "I think we should break the door open." "That could wake up the ladies." "They are still under the effect of morphine." "Did you give them morphine?" "Under certain circumstances, I am allowed to." "Open up!" "Henry?" "No!" "No!" " No!" " Quiet, bitch!" "Quiet, bitch!" "Henry!" "Henry, no!" "No!" "Don't you want to play?" "A scalpel!" "Are you a surgeon?" "Henry!" "Kneel!" "Take out of your pocket the manuscript Dr JekylI gave you." " The manuscript?" "I don't understand." " No?" "I am Edward Hyde." "Hyde?" "It's you!" "Did you think the heir of Dr Jekyll's fortune would look different?" "It will never be you, because only I am Henry's favourite." "Let's not waste time..." "The truth machine..." "Come here." " Do you recognise this cane?" " Yes." " Do you recognise it?" " Yes." " Do you recognise it?" " Yes!" "please, stop!" "You recognise it." "You recognise it." "Stop!" "You dared steal my cane." "I found it in the street." "I'll kill you." "It is Dr JekylI's cane, doctor of medicine, doctor of law, and Member of the Royal society." "And I am his benefactor and friend Edward Hyde." "Henry!" "Henry, it's me, Fanny." "My dream is to see you die." "It's not true." "It's you, I recognise you." "My wish is to see you dead." "I won't die." "I am your love." "You know that." "You are a brave man." "I love you and want to give you pleasure." "You have broken your word." " she doesn't listen." " Ah, the general!" "You are crazy!" "No, I'm not crazy, I'm in love." "Go and join your father." "You must respect your general." "Do you want to kill me?" " To the piano, quick!" " My fingers hurt." "You are lying." "I could play a waltz or maybe a military march." "You think you are dealing with a weak woman." "Murderer!" "You will be punished for your crimes." "The queen won't show any mercy." "She knows what a son means to his mother." "I am going to crush you, old hag." "Give me my child back." "Henry, help!" "Stop immediately!" "At your service, Dr Lanyon." "It's true, I committed crimes, but you commit them in your dreams." " Not another word." " Want to shoot?" "see these hands?" "They made your friend, Dr Jekyll, disappear." "Dr Jekyll?" "Before leaving, he left a message for you." "Where is it?" "Where I saw it last time:" "in his apartment." "Let's go." "Henry!" "Henry?" "It's not you." "They've stolen the key, too." "Where is his message?" "In the phonograph." " Do you know how to make it work?" " Yes." "Dear Lanyon, you are one of my oldest friends, and although sometimes we didn't agree on scientific issues," "I can't remember any flaw in our relationship." "Lanyon, my life, my honour, my mind, they are all in your hands." "If you don't help me tonight," "I will be lost." "Carry on." "I wish you let into my apartment a man who will come on my behalf." "You will give him five grams of solicor, a rare substance that isn't on sale." "My supply of solicor ended, and I'm in great need." "But I know you will fulfil my request." "If you send me the solicor my troubles will vanish like in a dream." "Fulfil my request and save your friend Henry Jekyll." "That's really Dr Jekyll's voice." "He's gone crazy." " Where is he now?" " The solicor can save him." "Calm down!" "Calm down!" "Sit down!" "I beg your pardon." "Here's the solicor." "This is all I have." "allow me..." "Now you will be introduced to a new domain of knowledge." "I am listening to you, but you are not at alI convincing." "As you please, Lanyon, but remember your oath." "What you are about to see is protected by professional secrecy." "And now you who hold so dear the most materialistic theories, you who despised the virtues of transcendental medicine, you who mocked your superiors, watch." "It's not you." "You died, Henry." "You live, Fanny." "It hurts." "The arrow..." "It's you who wounded me." "You told me you wanted to see me die." "It wasn't me who said that." "Which of you is it now?" "A hypocrite?" "My two faces are both absolutely honest." "It's me when I refuse the constraint and dive in vice, and it's always me when I work publicly to acquire the knowledge of how to alleviate suffering and pain." "Henry, your body seems to me too weak to resist to a similar expenditure of energy." "I am conscious about my body." "Each experience costs me five years of life." "But I know that I lose control of my original and superior self, to identify with my subordinate and inferior self." "These are Lanyon's curses." "It's not Lanyon, it's me." "And I'm acting on my own for my own pleasure." "I'm the first one who can look people in the face thanks to my indisputable reputation and the next minute, as a schoolboy, let go of my inhibitions and dive in the ocean of freedom." "No!" "Let go of me." "Don't go." "No!" "No!" "I beg you!" "There's no coming back from there." "No, come back." "No!" "We don't have any more solicor!" "I experience hatred and fear!" "Mother!" "Fanny, my daughter."