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1  No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene, says he.
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2  It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see.
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3  Mr. Utterson sighed deeply but said never a word; and the young man presently resumed.
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4  It was already bad enough when the name was but a name of which he could learn no more.
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5  The figure was stiff; but the signature was good for more than that, if it was only genuine.
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6  The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the week-days.
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7  The geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling.
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8  There is no other door, and nobody goes in or out of that one but, once in a great while, the gentleman of my adventure.
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9  There are three windows looking on the court on the first floor; none below; the windows are always shut but they're clean.
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10  He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running.
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11  Mr. Enfield and the lawyer were on the other side of the by-street; but when they came abreast of the entry, the former lifted up his cane and pointed.
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12  The solemn butler knew and welcomed him; he was subjected to no stage of delay, but ushered direct from the door to the dining-room where Dr. Lanyon sat alone over his wine.
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13  Well, we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child's family; he would have clearly liked to stick out; but there was something about the lot of us that meant mischief, and at last he struck.
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14  It was two stories high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower story and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence.
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15  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.
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16  Well, it was this way," returned Mr. Enfield: "I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps.
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17  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.
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