Excerpt from The Golden Fleece

"Owls have, no doubt, their proper place in the social as well as the natural world, but of all birds under the sun - or moon - they are the last that I should have chosen as types of wisdom, unless it be wisdom to prefer darkness to light, and to see, by choice, the night-side of everything in creation! To my mind, the lark that soars singing towards the sun in summer, or the robin that whistles his merry lay in the winter, is more emblematic of wisdom than all the owls that ever hooted!" Such were the reflections of Meredith, as he quitted Bumeabey Abbey, and sauntered along the broad avenue bordered with ancient beeches.

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