I've been avoiding this meme for years

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I was tagged by eliskimo

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

Here goes:

"But you must," said Vertue.
"The young gentleman is soft, sir, very soft," said Drudge. He is not used to this sort of thing. We'll have to help him along."
CS Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress, bk6, ch.1.

I tag tibba, lazy_neutrino, soavezeffiretto, cjmr and privatemaladict.