The Sea of Liberty
Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures. I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.
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Context: Jekyll recalls the appeal of having a second self to act for him.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case