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. I assure you that if Darcy were not such a great tall fellow , in comparison with myself, I should not pay him half so much deference. Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense.
Arguments are too much like disputes.
Mr. Darcy took her advice, and did finish his letter. When that business was over, he applied to Miss Bingley and Elizabeth for the indulgence of some music. Miss Bingley moved with alacrity to the piano-forte, and after a polite request that Elizabeth would lead the way, which the other as politely and more earnestly negatived, she seated herself. Mrs. Hurst sang with her sister , and while they were thus employed, Elizabeth could not help observing, as she turned over some music books that lay on the instrument , how frequently Mr. Darcy's eyes were fixed on her. She could only imagine however, at last, that she drew his notice because there was a something about her more wrong and reprehensible, according to his ideas of right, than in any other person present.