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The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Hardcover)
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The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R577
Discovery Miles 5 770
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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. "I incline to Cain's
heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil
in his 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 downgoing men. And to such as these, so long as
they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in
his demeanour.
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