Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendship, in spite of a great opposition of character.—Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, ductility* of his temper, though no disposition** could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.* the ability to change without breaking** personality