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And this chapter is called Dr. Jekyll was quite at ease.

A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies all intelligent reputable men and all judges of good wine mr utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had departed

this was no new arrangement but a thing that had befallen many scores of times.

Where Utterson was liked, he was liked well.

Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer.

When the light-hearted and loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold,

they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company.

Practicing for solitude, sobering their minds in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.

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