I don't find the Col and Miss Bingley pairing implausible at all, in fact I find it very plausible. After reading Changing Principles, I find them by far the most natural pairing for each other! After all, Col Fitz would want to marry with a little attention to money, doesn't mean he's an outright fortune hunter but he simply would like his wife to have a little money. And canon Caroline is never so bad as in many fanfics. She was no worse than many superficial, social climbing girls of that society whose ambitions had no other outlet than to hope for marriage with a rich or great man. Eliz and Jane were superior to the average girl. And JA believes in a influences -- Eliz and Darcy are good influences on each other, but when Darcy and Caro were friends, they were bad influences on each other and conspired to separate Bingley from Jane.
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