Charles Bingley

Also known as: Bingley / Bingley's / Charles / Mr. Bingley / his friend · Family: Bingley · Role: tenant of Netherfield · First appears: Chapter 4

Chapter 4

admired: Jane Bennet 〈Bingley had never met with pleasanter people or prettier girls in his life; 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; and as to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel more beautiful.〉
siblings with Caroline Bingley 〈His sisters were very anxious for his having an estate of his own; but though he was now established only as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table; nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married a man of more fashion than fortune, less disposed to consider his house as her home when it suited her.〉
siblings with Louisa Hurst 〈His sisters were very anxious for his having an estate of his own; but though he was now established only as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table; nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married a man of more fashion than fortune, less disposed to consider his house as her home when it suited her.〉
friends with Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendship, in spite of a great opposition of character.〉
parent: Bingley's father 〈Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.〉

courtship with Jane Bennet 〈He was full of joy and attention. The first half hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed, at his desire, to the other side of the fireplace, that she might be farther from the door. He then sat down by her, and talked scarcely to anyone else.〉
siblings with Louisa Hurst 〈Mrs. Hurst, principally occupied in playing with her bracelets and rings, joined now and then in her brother’s conversation with Miss Bennet.〉

with Jane Bennet (The master of the house is Charles Bingley; he urges Jane to remain as a host.) 〈The master of the house heard with real sorrow that they were to go so soon, and repeatedly tried to persuade Miss Bennet that it would not be safe for her--that she was not enough recovered; but Jane was firm where she felt herself to be right.〉

friends with Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈In another minute Mr. Bingley, but without seeming to have noticed what passed, took leave and rode on with his friend.〉

siblings with Louisa Hurst 〈Mr. Bingley and his sisters came to give their personal invitation for the long expected ball at Netherfield, which was fixed for the following Tuesday.〉
courtship with Jane Bennet 〈Jane pictured to herself a happy evening in the society of her two friends, and the attentions of their brother;〉

siblings with Louisa Hurst 〈She looked at his two sisters, and saw them making signs of derision at each other, and at Darcy, who continued, however, impenetrably grave.〉

courtship with Jane Bennet 〈Miss Bingley sees that her brother is in love with you and wants him to marry Miss Darcy.〉
admired: Georgiana Darcy 〈My brother admires her greatly already; he will have frequent opportunity now of seeing her on the most intimate footing〉

friends with Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈“You persist, then, in supposing his sisters influence him?” “Yes, in conjunction with his friend.”〉

siblings with Louisa Hurst 〈He was well, but so much engaged with Mr. Darcy that they scarcely ever saw him.〉
courtship with Jane Bennet 〈She would not even wish for any renewal of his attentions.〉

with Fitzwilliam Darcy (Darcy interfered in Bingley's relationship with Jane.) 〈That he had been concerned in the measures taken to separate Mr. Bingley and Jane, she had never doubted;〉

friends with Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈I have no wish of denying that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice in my success.〉

courtship with Jane Bennet 〈Bingley’s attentions to your sister had given rise to a general expectation of their marriage.〉
friends with Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈I had often seen him in love before.〉

friends with Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈that friendship between a person capable of it and such an amiable man as Mr. Bingley was incomprehensible〉

friends with Fitzwilliam Darcy 〈unless any could attach to the implicitness of his confidence in his friend.〉
courtship with Jane Bennet 〈Mr. Darcy’s explanation, by restoring Bingley to all her former good opinion, heightened the sense of what Jane had lost. His affection was proved to have been sincere,〉

admired: Jane Bennet 〈two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted a recollection of Jane, not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared.〉

courtship with Jane Bennet 〈Yet the misery, for which years of happiness were to offer no compensation, received soon afterwards material relief, from observing how much the beauty of her sister rekindled the admiration of her former lover.〉
with Charlotte Lucas (interaction) 〈Miss Lucas is married and settled:〉

courtship with Jane Bennet 〈His behaviour to her sister was such during dinnertime as showed an admiration of her, which, though more guarded than formerly, persuaded Elizabeth, that, if left wholly to himself, Jane’s happiness, and his own, would be speedily secured.〉

courtship with Jane Bennet 〈Oh, my dear, dear Jane, I am so happy! I am sure I shan’t get a wink of sleep all night. I knew how it would be. I always said it must be so, at last. I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing! I remember, as soon as ever I saw him, when he first came into Hertfordshire last year, I thought how likely it was that you should come together.〉
with Elizabeth Bennet (Prospective brother-in-law relationship.) 〈He then shut the door, and, coming up to her, claimed the good wishes and affection of a sister.〉
with Mr. Bennet (They met for the arranged shooting appointment.) 〈Bingley was punctual to his appointment; and he and Mr. Bennet spent the morning together, as had been agreed on.〉
siblings with Caroline Bingley 〈It must have been his sisters’ doing. They were certainly no friends to his acquaintance with me, which I cannot wonder at, since he might have chosen so much more advantageously in many respects. But when they see, as I trust they will, that their brother is happy with me, they will learn to be contented, and we shall be on good terms again: though we can never be what we once were to each other.〉

engaged with Jane Bennet 〈One morning, about a week after Bingley’s engagement with Jane had been formed, as he and the females of the family were sitting together in the dining-room, their attention was suddenly drawn to the window by the sound of a carriage;〉

siblings with Caroline Bingley 〈Miss Bingley’s congratulations to her brother on his approaching marriage were all that was affectionate and insincere.〉

with Jane Bennet (They remained together at Netherfield.) 〈Mr. Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only a twelvemonth.〉

Extracted from the original text of Pride and Prejudice. Made with Rho MD.