Sentence No. 102 · 7 July 2026
The court was very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight, although the sky, high up overhead, was still bright with sunset.
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson — The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice how the sentence pivots on 'although' — a concessive conjunction that introduces a contrast. Whatever follows it (the bright sky) must oppose what came before (the damp, twilit court), so 'although' anchors the second half and never opens the sentence.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 8 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. Two gentlemen pause in a damp courtyard at dusk, troubled for a friend. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.
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