Monday, 6 April 2009

Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance …

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.

The first line of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Loius Stevenson

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