His Last Bow
The closing passage: 'There's an east wind coming, Watson... such a wind as never blew on England yet... a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.'
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From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes's final wartime adventure, capturing a German spy on the eve of WWI, containing the famous 'east wind' speech.
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