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Mr. Utterson the lawyer was 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.

–The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
Robert Louis Stevenson

Where in the plot is this passage found?

the exposition
the rising action
the climax
the falling action