文档介绍：STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
STRANGE CASE OF
DR. JEKYLL AND MR.
HYDE
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
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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 theatre, 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.
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STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
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"I incline to, Cain's heresy," he used to say. "I let my brother go to the
devil in his quaintly: "own way." 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. And to such as these, so long as they came
about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour.
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. It is the mark of a modest man to
accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and
that was the lawyer's way. 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. Hence, n