“It is terrible bad luck. Owls are often augurs of death, Mr. Flattery. There is no surer sign.”

“Not even the cessation of breathing?” the viscount asked, but neither Tristam nor Beacham laughed.
Source: World Without End (1995), Chapter 39 (p. 557)

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