Friday 56

The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It is really easy to participate.

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link up at Freda's site.

Here's mine from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne:

One would have though that the whole force of the misfortune would have spent and wasted itself in the family at first,--as is generally the case:--But nothing ever wrought with our family after the ordinary way.