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What remark had Utterson said when he started looking for Hyde?

Book: Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Spotting Mr. Hyde down the street, walking toward him, Mr. Utterson felt that the man "went somehow strongly against [his] inclination"; in other words, Hyde inspires a dislike in others even from a distance. Utterson asks to see Hyde's face, so that he will know him in future, and Hyde mentions that it is actually a good thing that they should know each other. Utterson wonders if he is aware of Dr. Jekyll's will, which leaves all to Hyde should Jekyll ever disappear unaccountably. After their interaction, Utterson feels "disquietude" and "perplexity": he is unsettled and confused by Hyde's manner and person. Hyde

was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing, and fear with which Mt. Utterson regarded him.

In short, despite Hyde's obvious flaws, Utterson is at a loss for how to account for his total aversion to the man, and he eventually decides that "'if ever [he] read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of [Jekyll's] new friend.'" He believes that Hyde is composed, then, of pure evil.

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