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Tonight, I will be reading

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Lewis Stevenson.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Story of the Door

Mr. Uterson, 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, long, lean, 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 wandering, almost with envy,

at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds, and in any extremity,

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