How would Jane Austen say ''you're a mean bully you bitch''?

[PearlyBird]

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Ah ok perfect. Wait till she’s says something to imply that you are beneath her, stick out your chin and tell her “badly done” and leave. Let’s everyone know she’s a bitch and leaves her to explain herself or brazen it out. Jane Austen was all about letting the terrible manners speak for themselves. (I love Jane but I am incapable of poise much more likely to tell her to shove her head up her bum)

Even if I could deliver such a line, when I marched smartly off I would no doubt trip over my dress!

@Dozer

Elizabeth Bennett and Lady Catherine de Burgh (?) garden scene.

Something like ‘you have offended me by every possible means. I must beg to return to the house’

You could borrow Lady Catherine’s phraseology and thunder ‘Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted [by your presence]?’

Only it kind of loses its effect if you live in a house called Dunroamin or Number Fifteen. And if all your ancestors were total cows.

"You forget yourself, madam"

I'm going to try and get that into conversation at some point this week

If you cannot countenance acting in a way which befits a gentlewoman I suggest you should no longer claim to be a gentlewoman

My favourite is

‘Badly done Emma, badly done.’ So much disappointment in that one line.

I came on to say 'Badly done' too. Brilliant in its economy.

I get angry at Emma every time I re-read or re-watch that scene where she mocks Miss Bates.

Miss Woodhouse demonstrates less breeding than the lewdest baggage at a thrupenny bawdy house.

(obv Jane never referred to lewd baggages or bawdy houses)

But would Bingley, Darcy et al have been taken to an upmarket bawdy house upon leaving school in order to initiate them into the manly ways of the world? I presume so.