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Pride & Prejudice – page 89

Pride and Prejudice

“To yield without conviction is no compliment to the

understanding of either.”

“You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for

the influence of friendship and affection. A regard for

the requester would often make one readily yield to a

request, without waiting for arguments to reason one

into it. I am not particularly speaking of such a case

as you have supposed about Mr. Bingley. We may as

well wait, perhaps, till the circumstance occurs before

we discuss the discretion of his behaviour thereupon.

But in general and ordinary cases between friend and

friend, where one of them is desired by the other to

change a resolution of no very great moment, should

you think ill of that person for complying with the

desire, without waiting to be argued into it?”

“Will it not be advisable, before we proceed on

this subject, to arrange with rather more precision the

degree of importance which is to appertain to this

request, as well as the degree of intimacy subsisting

between the parties?”

“By all means,” cried Bingley; “let us hear all the

particulars, not forgetting their comparative height and

size; for that will have more weight in the argument,

Miss Bennet, than you may be aware of. I assure you,

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