Little WomenLouisa May Alcott
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A reason to turn the page
The basket tips and a gigantic lobster is revealed to a highborn guest—class and comedy collide.
Discovery 3 of 15They got on excellently, for Amy’s chief care was soon set at rest by learning that the gentleman would leave first, and she was chatting away in a peculiarly lofty strain, when the old lady got out. In stumbling to the door, she upset the basket, and—oh horror!—the lobster, in all its vulgar size and brilliancy, was revealed to the highborn eyes of a Tudor!