chapter 9 Flashcards
Dr Lanyon's narrative
“I would not have…
sacrificed my left hand to help you”
“Lanyon, my life…
my honour, my reason, are all at your mercy”
“In my extreme…
distress of mind”
“some powders, a phial…
and a paper book”
“labouring under a blackness…
of distress that no fancy can exaggerate”
“we moved a body to old Dr…
Denman’s surgical theatre”
“phial, might have been about half full…
of a blood-red liquor, highly pungent”
“seemed to me to contain…
phosphorous and some volatile”
“a small man…
crouching against the pillars”
“I thought my visitor…
started and made greater haste”
“I was struck besides…
with the shocking expression of his face”
“his remarkable combination…
of great muscular activity and great apparent debility of constitution”
“old, subjective…
disturbance caused by his neighborhood”
“his clothes, although they were of rich and sober fabric…
were enormously too large for him in every measurement
“the collar sprawling…
wide upon his shoulders”
“and so lively was his impatience…
that he even laid his hand upon my arm and sought to shake me”
“conscious at his touch…
of a certain icy pang along my blood”
“I could hear his teeth grate…
with the convulsive action of his jaws”
“his face was so ghastly…
to see that I grew alarmed both for his life and reason”
“he turned a dreadful smile to me…
and as if with the decision of despair, plucked away the sheet”
“at the sight of the contents…
he uttered one loud sob of such immense relief that I sat petrified”
“your sight shall be blasted…
by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan”
“you who have denied the virtue of…
transcendental medicine, you who have derided your superiors”
“he reeled..
staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes”
