A Handful Of Dust - Opening

CHAPTER ONE

DU COTE DE CHEZ BEAVER

"WAS anyone hurt?"

"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court. There were in no danger.

... I will show you something different from either

Your shadow at morning striding behind you

Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

The Waste Land

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