Pp.44-46, regarding Elizabeth “Her manners were pronounced to be very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no style, no beauty. Mrs. Hurst thought the same, and added: "She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning. She really looked almost wild…Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been let down to hide it not doing its office…You observed it, Mr. Darcy, I am sure," said Miss Bingley; "and I am inclined to think that you would not wish to see your sister make such an exhibition." "Certainly not." “To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! What could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.”...“it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world," replied Darcy.
Rather than focus on concern for her family, those of the upper-classes criticise her for a lack of respect for class values such as propriety, demonstration of wealth (horses, carriages, avoiding the sun). She is characterised negatively by the Bingley women, however, the reader is positioned to reject this faulty assertion and the hyperbole by which they framed their attach on Elizabeth.