...straightforward brute, if a murderous one. There was no mystery about him, nothing uncanny, no suggestion of a stealthy, deliberate wild-cat turned into a man, or...gentlemen, if you had turned up here only three months ago—ay, less than three months ago—you would have found somebody very different from what I am...

...living in hell for weeks, so you don't make much difference. I'll let you have the concertroom—and hang the consequences. But what about the boy on late..."That will do very well," he assented mournfully. "But in it ul, gentlemen, if you had turned up here only three months ago—ay, less than three months ago—...

...straightforward brute, if a murderous one. There was no mystery about him, nothing uncanny, no suggestion of a stealthy, deliberate wild-cat turned into a man, or...with skin and bones and a subtle power of terror" (2.5.115-16). So we have the trio: grotesque man-animal creatures, abominations. Their uncanny evil...