Search for Mr. Hyde
That evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of a Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity on his reading desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed. On this night however, as soon as the cloth was taken away, he took up a candle and went into his business room. There he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as “Dr. Jekyll’s Will” and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.
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その夜、アターソン氏は暗い気分で独身の家に帰り、何の楽しみもなく夕食に着いた。 日曜日の彼の習慣は、この食事が終わると、暖炉のそばに座って、読書机の上に乾いた神性の本を一冊置くことであり、近くの教会の時計が鳴り響く十二時まで、そのとき彼は素面でありがたく就寝することになっていた。 しかし、この夜、彼は布が取り去られるとすぐに、ろうそくを手に取り、仕事部屋に入っていった。 そこで彼は金庫を開け、その最もプライベートな部分から封筒に「ジキル博士の遺書」と裏書きされた文書を取り出し、眉を曇らせて座ってその内容を検討した。