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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson

Story of the Door

Mr. Utterson, the lawyer, was a man of 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,

second from his eye, something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which

spoke not only in the 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 theater had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.

But he had an approved tolerance for others, sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at

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