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OP "'Ah!' cried Brass. 'That's affecting, truly affecting. A poor widow struggling to maintain her orphans in decency and comfort, is a delicious picture of human goodness.--Put down your hat, Kit.' "
I was surprised to see Dickens calling Kit an orphan, while his mother is alive. But Webster 1913 surprised me by sayhing that the word could be used that way.
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