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{{quote|"By the Lord, it is as well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive..."}}
* ''The Devil's Foot'': Holmes loses his composure after Watson has saved them both from the titular drug/nerve gas and admits that he should never have subjected his friend to it.
* The ending of ''The Yellow Face'' when Grant Munro decides to accept his wife's biracial daughter into the family. This is even a CMOH '''in'''-universe; Watson prefaces it by saying that just thinking about it gives him warm fuzzies.
{{quote|'''Grant Munro:''' I may not be a very good man, Effie, but I think I am a better man than you take me for.}}
** This is even a CMOH in-universe; Watson prefaces it by saying that just thinking about it gives him warm fuzzies.
** And don't forget what Holmes says at the very end: "Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."
*** This troper believes that the whole passage is necessary in order to fully comprehend the true power of this scene. It's not just Munro, it's not just Holmes, it's Watson's narration:
{{quote|It was a long ten minutes before Grant Munro broke the silence, and when his answer came it was one I love to think. He lifted the little child, kissed her, and then,still carrying her, he held his other hand out to his wife and turned towards the door.
"We can talk more comfortably at home," said he. "I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being."
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