{"product_id":"2940012041760","title":"STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE","description":"An excerpt:\u003cbr\u003eSTORY OF THE DOOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was\u003cbr\u003enever lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in\u003cbr\u003ediscourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and\u003cbr\u003eyet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to\u003cbr\u003ehis taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye;\u003cbr\u003esomething indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which\u003cbr\u003espoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but\u003cbr\u003emore often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere with\u003cbr\u003ehimself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for\u003cbr\u003evintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the\u003cbr\u003edoors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for\u003cbr\u003eothers; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure\u003cbr\u003eof spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined\u003cbr\u003eto help rather than to reprove.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I incline to Cain's heresy,\" he used to say quaintly: \"I let my\u003cbr\u003ebrother go to the devil in his own way.\" In this character, it was\u003cbr\u003efrequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the\u003cbr\u003elast good influence in the lives of down-going men. And to such as\u003cbr\u003ethese, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a\u003cbr\u003eshade of change in his demeanour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was\u003cbr\u003eundemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be\u003cbr\u003efounded in a similar catholicity of good-nature. It is the mark of a\u003cbr\u003emodest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands\u003cbr\u003eof opportunity; and that was the lawyer's way. His friends were\u003cbr\u003ethose of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his\u003cbr\u003eaffections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no\u003cbr\u003eaptness in the object. Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him to\u003cbr\u003eMr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about\u003cbr\u003etown. It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in\u003cbr\u003eeach other, or what subject they could find in common. It was\u003cbr\u003ereported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that\u003cbr\u003ethey said nothing, looked singularly dull, and would hail with\u003cbr\u003eobvious relief the appearance of a friend. For all that, the two men\u003cbr\u003eput the greatest store by these excursions, counted them the chief\u003cbr\u003ejewel of each week, and not only set aside occasions of pleasure,\u003cbr\u003ebut even resisted the calls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120929587440,"sku":"2940012041760","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012041760_p0.jpg?v=1763552091","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012041760","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}