She is awkwardly circumstanced.

With such warm feelings and lively spirits it must be difficult to do justice to her affection for Mrs.Crawford, without throwing a shade on the Admiral.

I do not pretend to know which was most to blame in their disagreements, though the Admiral's present conduct might incline one to the side of his wife; but it is natural and amiable that Miss Crawford should acquit her aunt entirely.

I do not censure her _opinions_; but there certainly _is_ impropriety in making them public." "Do not you think," said Fanny, after a little consideration, "that this impropriety is a reflection itself upon Mrs.Crawford, as her niece has been entirely brought up by her?
She cannot have given her right notions of what was due to the Admiral." "That is a fair remark.

Yes, we must suppose the faults of the niece to have been those of the aunt; and it makes one more sensible of the disadvantages she has been under.