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 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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 4 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 5 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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 6 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 7 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 8 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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 9 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 10 Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east, the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point, a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street.
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 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.
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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