Book Meme!
Snagged from misguidance . ^__^
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
'Oh, Ling,' she exclaimed at length, 'most expert of sword-users and most noble of men, surely never was a maiden more inelegantly placed than the one who is now by your side. To you she owes her life, yet it is unseemly for her to even speak of the incident; to you she must look for protection, yet she cannot ask you to stay by her side. She is indeed alone. The magician is dead, Ki has fallen, Ling is going, and Mian is undoubtedly the most unhappy and solitary person between The Wall and the Nan Hai.'
'Beloved Mian,' excalimed Ling, with inspiring vehemence, 'and is not the utterly unworthy person before you indebted to you in a double measure that life is still within him? Is not the strength which now promotes him to such exceptional audacity as to aspire to your lovely hand, of your own creating?[']
Whew! There's some verbiage for you! The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah, 1900. Which happened to be on the top of the pile beside the fireplace at my back.