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She found his manners very pleasing indeed.-The little flaw of having a Mistress now living with him at Ashdown Park, seems to be the only unpleasing circumstance about him.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The passage reports a favourable impression of a man’s manners, then identifies his live-in mistress as the supposedly small exception. Calling that circumstance a little flaw creates pointed understatement. The contrast exposes how an agreeable social manner can sit beside conduct that complicates the praise.
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