1 It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by-street in a busy quarter of London.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 2 And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 3 It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other, or what subject they could find in common.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 4 I knew what was in his mind, just as he knew what was in mine; and killing being out of the question, we did the next best.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 5 The people who had turned out were the girl's own family; and pretty soon, the doctor, for whom she had been sent, put in his appearance.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 6 And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could, for they were as wild as harpies.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 7 In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 8 No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 9 His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 10 It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull, and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 11 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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 12 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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 13 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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 14 I took the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal, and that a man does not, in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out of it with another man's cheque for close upon a hundred pounds.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 15 The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their gains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 16 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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 17 Even on Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest; and with its freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger.
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