The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Title:	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Author:	Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Excerpt
Excerpt: 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 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 the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.