The mysterious door

Summary

Mr Utterson is a lawyer that sames a cold man but he ever helps people. He considered his best friends: his family and people who be for a long time in his life. One day, he was walking with his friend, Mr. Richard Enfield, when they saw a very old house. They were talking about this house and Enfield tells a story to the lawyer. He explains that one day, he was walking near than the old house and saw a man trampled to a girl of about 9 or 10 years. The girl's father seeks compensation of £ 100 to Hyde, the men that walking the girld, and he gives it without complaint. Mr Utterson knows the person who signed the check, is his friend and called Harry Jekyll. Utterson attaches great importance to the key that Hyde opens the door of old house and asks his friend if he really opened it with a key.

Vocabulary


lawyer: advocat
countenance: tolerar
wondering: preguntant
envy: envejar
acquaintance: conegut
chambers: càmeres
demeanour: comportament
pitching: capcineigs
crewed: roscat
payable: pagador
bearer: portador
cheque: xec
chimney: xemeneia
sighed: va sospirar
deeply: profundament
ashamed: avergonyit
sullenness: rudesa

Characters


MR. Utterson: was a lawyer. 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. Is a very good friend with his friends and always helps.

Mr. Richard Enfield: It's cousin and a good friend of Mr Utterson. Always walk together. The whole town knows him and say that he is very good person and very friendly, unlike his cousin.

Hyde: He is a small man, unsightly, seems that with burns to the face, evil with a very cold character. This chapter suggests that lives in the old house.

Harry Jekyll: is a doctor, friend of Utterson by profession, is good and kind and apparently also has a very good relationship with Hyde.