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The Only Exception of This Change of Mine Was Gatsby
The Only Exception of This Change of Mine Was Gatsby
When Mr. Hyde had left him, the lawyer stood for some
time as picture of disquietude. Then he started slowly
climbing up the street, stopping after every two steps and
putting his hand on his forehead, like a man in mental
perplexity. The problem he was debating so much while
walking, was hardly solvable. Mr. Hyde was pale and
stunted, he gave off an impression of deformity, but the
resentment could not be named, he had an uncomfortable
smile and he showed himself to the lawyer with some kind
of fatal mixture of timidity and courage, and he spoke with
raspy, whispery and somewhat broken voice. Those were all
things that went against him, but all of them together
couldn`t explain already familiar disgust, loathing and fear
with which Mr. Utterson saw him. “There must be
something else”, said the confused man. “There is
something else, that I don`t know the name of. Oh God, that
man almost doesn`t look like a human being! We could say,
something troglodytic? Or it is an old story about Dr.
Unlikable? Or it is just simple radiation of the heavigive soul,
which evaporates through it`s human body and
metamorphoses it? Finally, I think my poor old Henry Jekyll,
if I ever read Satan`s sign on his face, then I have read it on
your friend`s face”.
Being southerners, it was a source of shame for some
members of our family that we had no recorded ancestors
on either side of the Battle of Hastings.We only had Simon
Finch, a pharmacist from Cornwall whose piety surpassed
only his stubborness. In England, Simon was bothered by
persecution of those who called themselves Methodists,
which was done by their more open-minded brothers, and
since Simon called himself a Methodist, he crossed the
Atlantic, reached Philadelphia, from there to Jamaica, then
to Mobile and up the St. Stephens river. Obeying John
Wasley`s rules about limited use of words during buying and
selling, Simon made a fortune practicing medicine, but he
was unhappy in his wealth out of fear of temptantion to do
something that was not in God`s glory, as is putting on gold
jewelry and expensive clothes. So Simon, forgetting his
teacher`s dictum of not owning human property, bought
three slaves and with their help established a household on
the banks of Alabama River about sixty kilometers north of
Saint Stephens. He returned to Saint Stephens only once, to
find a wife, and with her he established a line in which
dominated daughters. Simon lived to an enviable old age
and died rich.