Tagged

Tagged by Karine:
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag 5 people

Well... the identity of the nearest book should surprise no one.

From Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. 1747-48. Ed. Angus Ross. London: Penguin, 1985. A letter from Clarissa to her mother in which she compares her brother with Mr. Lovelace:
"... Over the one indeed, I have had some little influence, without giving him hitherto any reason to think he has fastened an obligation upon me for it—Over the other, who, madam, has any?
"I am grieved at the heart to be obliged to lay so great a blame at my brother's door, although my reputation and my liberty are both to be sacrificed to his resentment and ambition."

I do kind of wish a different book had been closest. Clarissa isn't exactly quote-worthy.

I tag Nicole, Nat, Daorcey (ha! two tags, one blog!), Christine, and Kris. As if Kris will ever respond.