chapter 1 Flashcards
story of the door
“Mr Utterson…
the lawyer was a man of rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile”
“I incline to…
Cain’s heresy”
“frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance….
and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men”
“the bond that…
united him to Mr Richard Enfield”
“the street shone out…
in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood”
“a certain sinister block…
of building thrust forward”
“showed…
no window”
“discoloured wall…
on the upper”
“bore in every feature…
the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence”
“the door, which was equipped…
with neither bell nor knocker was blistered and disdained”
“it is connected in my mind…
with a very odd story”
“I was coming home…
from some place at the end of the world, about 3 o clock of a black Winter morning”
“a little man who was…
stumping along eastward at a good walk”
and the other a girl of maybe..
eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able”
“the man trampled…
calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground”
“it was hellish…
to see”
“it wasn’t like a man…
it was like some damned Juggernaut”
“he was perfectly…
cool”
“gave me one look…
so ugly it brought out the sweat on me like running”
“I had taken a loathing…
to my gentleman at first sight”
“I saw that Sawbones turn…
sick and white with desire to kill him!
“we did the next best…
“make his name stink from one end of London to the other”
“if he had any friends or any credit…
we were undertook that he should lose them”
“I never saw a circle of such…
hateful faces”
“a black…
sneering coolness”
“really like…
Satan”
“presently came back with…
the matter of ten pounds in gold”
“there is no other door…
and nobody goes in or out of that one but, once in a great while, the gentlemen of my adventure”
“there is something wrong with his appearance..
something displeasing, something down-right detestable”
“I never saw a man…
I so disliked”
“he must be deformed somewhere…
he gives a strong sense of deformity”
“Here is another lesson to say nothing…
I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again”
