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He might see a reason for his friend 's strange preference or bondage -LRB- call it which you please -RRB- and even for the startling clauses of the will . And at least it would be a face worth seeing : the face of a man who was without bowels of mercy : a face which had but to show itself to raise up , in the mind of the unimpressionable Enfield , a spirit of enduring hatred . From that time forward , Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops . In the morning before office hours , at noon when business was plenty and time scarce , at night under the face of the fogged city moon , by all lights and at all hours of solitude or concourse , the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post . `` If he be Mr. Hyde , '' he had thought , `` I shall be Mr. Seek . '' And at last his patience was rewarded . It was a fine dry night ; frost in the air ; the streets as clean as a ballroom floor ; the lamps , unshaken by any wind , drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow .