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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Chapter 1: Story of the Door
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile;
cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet
somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human
beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not
only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He
was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he
enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance
for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their
misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. “I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he
used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.” In this character, it was frequently
his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing
men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of
change in his demeanour.
No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even
his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature. It is the mark of a modest man
to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer’s way. His
friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy,
were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. Hence, no doubt the bond that united him
to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town. It was a nut to crack for
many, what these two could see in each other, or what subject they could find in common. It was reported
by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull and
would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend. For all that, the two men put the greatest store
by these excursions, counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not only set aside occasions of
pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted.
It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by-street in a busy quarter
of London. The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays.
The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out
the surplus of their grains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts st
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