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Jim GM
... Darcy's house (we know he had this from his conversation with Sir William Lucas) ...

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"You have a house in town, I conclude?"

Mr. Darcy bowed.

"I had once had some thought of fixing in town myself—for I am fond of superior society; but I did not feel quite certain that the air of London would agree with Lady Lucas."

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"He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable"

"...he wore a blue coat, and rode a black horse."

"Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners."

"Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room; he was lively and unreserved, danced every dance, was angry that the ball closed so early, and talked of giving one himself at Netherfield."

(Bingley, to Darcy)" "I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing about by yourself in this stupid manner. You had much better dance."

"I would not be so fastidious as you are," cried Mr. Bingley, "for a kingdom!"

"Mr. Bingley followed his advice." (Walking off after Darcy rejects his plea to dance)

"...it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of his temper, ..."

"Mr. Bingley had not been of age two years, when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House. He did look at it, and into it for half-an-hour—was pleased with the situation and the principal rooms, satisfied with what the owner said in its praise, and took it immediately."

"Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendship, in spite of great opposition of character. Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, and ductility of his temper, though no disposition could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied."

"In understanding, Darcy was the superior. Bingley was by no means deficient, ..."

"Bingley was sure of being liked wherever he appeared,..."

"... everybody had been most kind and attentive to him; there had been no formality, no stiffness; he had soon felt acquainted with all the room;..."

"It is amazing to me," said Bingley, "how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are."

"Whatever I do is done in a hurry," replied he; "and therefore if I should resolve to quit Netherfield, I should probably be off in five minutes."

"When I am in the country," he replied, "I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town it is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either."

"Mr. Bingley was unaffectedly civil in his answer, and forced his younger sister to be civil also, and say what the occasion required."

"Mr. Hurst and Mr. Bingley were at piquet,..."

"Oh!" cried Miss Bingley, "Charles writes in the most careless way imaginable. He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest."
"My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents."

(Darcy to Bingley) ""I dare say you believed it; but I am by no means convinced that you would be gone with such celerity. Your conduct would be quite as dependent on chance as that of any man I know; and if, as you were mounting your horse, a friend were to say, 'Bingley, you had better stay till next week,' you would probably do it, you would probably not go—and at another word, might stay a month."

(Darcy)"I see your design, Bingley," said his friend. "You dislike an argument, and want to silence this."
"Perhaps I do. Arguments are too much like disputes. ..."

"She was resolved against any sort of conversation with him, and turned away with a degree of ill-humour which she could not wholly surmount even in speaking to Mr. Bingley, whose blind partiality provoked her."

"Bingley was all grateful pleasure, and he readily engaged for taking the earliest opportunity of waiting on her, after his return from London, whither he was obliged to go the next day for a short time."

(Darcy to Elizabeth) "But Bingley has great natural modesty, with a stronger dependence on my judgement than on his own."

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Source: Chap. 25, Pride and Prejudice,
> Jane Austen
>
> "I hope," added Mrs. Gardiner, "that no
> consideration with regard to this young man will
> influence her. We live in so different a part of
> town, all our connections are so different, and,
> as you well know, we go out so little, that it is
> very improbable that they should meet at all,
> unless he really comes to see her."
>
> "And that is quite impossible; for he is now in
> the custody of his friend, and Mr. Darcy would
> no more suffer him to call on Jane in such a part
> of London! My dear aunt, how could you think of
> it? Mr. Darcy may perhaps have heard of such a
> place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly
> think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him
> from its impurities, were he once to enter it; and
> depend upon it, Mr. Bingley never stirs without
> him."
>

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Source: Chap. 25, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

"I hope," added Mrs. Gardiner, "that no consideration with regard to this young man will influence her. We live in so different a part of town, all our connections are so different, and, as you well know, we go out so little, that it is very improbable that they should meet at all, unless he really comes to see her."

"And that is quite impossible; for he is now in the custody of his friend, and Mr. Darcy would no more suffer him to call on Jane in such a part of London! My dear aunt, how could you think of it? Mr. Darcy may perhaps have heard of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it; and depend upon it, Mr. Bingley never stirs without him."