"I have been learning something of young Hyde." The large handsome face of Dr. "You have told me so." "Well, I tell you so again," continued the lawyer. "My will? Yes, certainly, I know that," said the doctor, a trifle sharply. I was never more disappointed in any man than Lanyon." "You know I never approved of it," pursued Utterson, ruthlessly disregarding the fresh topic. Oh, I know he's a good fellow-you needn't frown-an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him but a hide-bound pedant for all that an ignorant, blatant pedant. I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies. "My poor Utterson," said he, "you are unfortunate in such a client. "You know that will of yours?" A close observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful but the doctor carried it off gaily. "I have been wanting to speak to you, Jekyll," began the latter. Jekyll was no exception and as he now sat on the opposite side of the fire- a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness -you could see by his looks that he cherished for Mr. Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and the loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.
Where Utterson was liked, he was liked well. This was no new arrangement, but a thing that had befallen many scores of times. Utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had departed. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease A FORTNIGHT later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine and Mr.
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