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1 The mysterious door

Mr Utterson the lawyer was a quiet, serious man. Hewas shy with strangers and afraid of showing his feelings. Among friends, however, his eyes shone with kindnessand , although this goodness never found itsway into his conversation, it showed itself in his way of did not allow himself many enjoyable things in life. He ateand drank simply and, although he enjoyed the theatre,hehad not been to a play for twenty years. However, he wasgentler towards other men’ s weaknesses,and was alwaysready to help rather than blame them. As a lawyer, he was often the last good person that evil-doers met on their way toprison,or worse. These people often carried with them memories of his politeness and fairness.
Mr Utterson's best friend was a distant cousin calledRichard Enfield,who was well known as a fun-loving ‘manabout town’.Nobody could understand why they werefriends, as they were different from each other in every often took long walks together,however, marchingthrough the streets of London panionable silence.
One of these walks used to take them down a narrow sidestreet in a busy part of London. It was a clean, busy, friendlystreet with bright little shops and shiny doorknockers. Nearthe end of this street, however, stood a dark, mysterious,windowless door had neither bell nor knockerand looked dusty and uncared for. Dirty children played fearlessly on the doorstep, and nobody ever opened the door todrive them away.
One day,as Mr Enfield and his friend passed the building,Mr Enfield pointed to it.
‘Have you ever noticed that place?’he asked.‘It remindsme of a very strange story.’
‘Really?’said Mr Utterson.‘Tell me.’
‘Well,’began Enfield,‘I ing home about threeo’clock on a black winter morning,when suddenly I saw first was a short man who was walking along thestreet,and the second was a little girl who was running as fastas she could. Well,the two bumped into each other and thechild fell d