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before they were skimming quick All right then Right down
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to it What is paragraph one mainly about And here
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the potential answers shmoop all right Well the key here
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is the word mainly is on the plane Li like
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it lets us know that we want a pinpoint The
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most important topic option aid does not do the trick
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We get the scoop on mr gunderson's wild sundays which
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consists of sitting alone by a fire while reading boring
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books But there's something much more interesting going on in
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the passage Even if there's nothing interesting going on in
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other sins Life option d also points out a detail
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that's far too minor We see that dr jekyll has
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many credentials which allowing to put a bunch of important
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sounding letters after his name M d d c l
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l l d fr s c h m o p
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whatever However mr utterson has bigger things to worry about
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then dr jekyll's Fancy credentials answer c is getting warmer
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Mr utterson is definitely wondering about the relationship between dr
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jacqueline mr hyde However he doesn't find out enough concrete
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information for us to conclude that this is the main
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topic of the passage Maybe If patterson included a little
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robert louis stevenson in those sunday reading sessions he wouldn't
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be so in the dark which leaves us with be
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the passage goes on for a while about all the
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reasons jekyll's will rubs out us in the wrong way
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and it's utter sins suspicion about the will that leads
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him to go Visit dr lanyon and it's These same
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suspicions that have him tossing and turning in bed at
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the end of the passage But don't worry anderson Sleep
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will come Just don't take any sleep aids given to 00:02:06.18 --> [endTime] you by dr jekyll You'll probably regret him
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