Chapter 6 (Quite at Home)
Jarndyce introduces Bleak House and the Growlery, deflecting gratitude with his catchphrase about the east wind.
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From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The benevolent guardian of Esther, Ada, and Richard, who has refused to be ruined by the suit that bears his name; he retreats to the Growlery when 'the wind is in the east.'
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