Opening Passage

From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The novella opens with a character sketch of the lawyer Mr. Utterson, the rational observer through whom the strange events will be filtered.
Chapter 1 (Story of the Door)

Opens with: '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.' Establishes the sober, lawyerly perspective.

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