Me!Me! Meme

I am not much accustomed to participating in memes.  I think perhaps I have only done one or two and always feel like I am not well equipped to do them and end up feeling rather inadequate about the whole thing.  However, this recent tagging by Wendy is one I think I can do and still be able to look at myself in the mirror with some respect remaining and credibility intact. Not that I tend to look at myself in the mirror - you'd try not to, if you were me, believe me.  It's purely figurative.  Without further ado - the meme.

The meme is to select a current book you are reading, turn to page 123 of it, snort five lines- sorry, skip five lines (sentences), and then provide reportage on the following three sentences.

The book I have just begun to read is Will Self's The Book of Dave.  Here are the three totally context-less sentences thusly referred to:

"Mister Greaves is prepared to pay for more bubbery and London bricks if you increase your industry. He is prepared to pay for the feathers of seafowl as well; however he will no longer offer you a price for the oil of these... these... toyist beasts!
At this the Hamsters let out a great groan, but the Driver, feeling the rhythm of his own rhetoric, was not to be halted:"

So, now you know what is on page 123, five sentences down, of Will Self's The Book of Dave.

I understand that to have successfully completed the meme, I now need to pass it along to three other people.  For no other reason than no reason at all, here are my three unknowing invitees:

Dale (who, let's face it, has been idling away for a while now and so surely must have many books on the go!  - kidding, Dale)

Brennig (who I am sure is reading something either uber cool or something uber anti-cool - either would be equally entertaining I am sure)

Lost Dwarf (whose recent reading material is sure to come up with something good for us)