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[lostin1800]

I'm reading 'Wives and Daughters.'

In this passage, the ladies of Hollingford, a 1819 English little town, admired their countess, Lady Cumnor:
�How good of the countess! So like the dear countess� always thinking of others!�

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See the second paragraph of Page 2 of Chapter 1 in http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/241/2399/frameset.html
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Does 'So like the dear countess' mean 'I like the dear countess so much'
or 'She is just as what a countess ought to be'?

[pugachevV]

It means, "It is so typical of the countess (to be always thinking of others).

[lostin1800]