The Bingley Sisters

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Caroline Bingley and Louisa Hurst
- Charming and witty
  - Letter from Caroline Bingley (Chapter 7)
    - "My Dear Friend"
    - "For a whole day's Tête á Tête between two women can never end without a quarrel"
    - "Yours ever, Caroline Bingley"
  - Opinions of Caroline Bingley and Louisa Hurst
    - Chapter 4 Austin narration
      - "They were in fact very fine ladies"
      - "They were rather handsome"
      - "...been educated in one of the private seminaries in town"
    - Chapter 4 Jane to Elizabeth
      - "They are very pleasing women"
      - "I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming neighbour in her" (on Caroline Bingley)
- Rude and proud
  - Chapter 8 on the Bennets
    - "...and such low connections" Mrs Hurst
    - ""That is capital" added her sister, and they both laughed heartily" Miss Bingley on family relations in Cheapside
    - "She really looked almost wild" Mrs Hurst on Elizabeth Bennet
    - ""She has in short nothing to recommend her"" Mrs Hurst on Elizabeth Bennet
    - ""Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!"" Miss Bingley on Elizabeth Bennet
  - Opinions of Caroline Bingley and Louisa Hurst
    - Chapter 4 Austin narration
      - "...but proud and conceited"
      - "...in the habit of spending more than they ought"
      - "...associating with people of rank"
      - "...and were therefore entitled to think well of themselves and meanly of others"
Whilst it is important to think of Miss Bingley and Mrs Hurst of being minor antagonists of the novel, it is easy to lock into that mind-set without remembering the other things the sisters are actually good for (i.e. charm, wit and accomplishment) other than over-flirting with Mr Darcy

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