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'Go up to bed, you baggage,' commanded Ravenscar
This is the best insult

Ravenscar giving brotherly advice <3

'Deb, you were not - you were not vulgar?'
'Yes, I was. I was as vulgar as I could be, and I shall be more vulgar presently!'
'But why?' almost shrieked her ladyship.
Miss Grantham swallowed, blushed, and said in a small-girl voice: 'To teach him a lesson!'

one thing I really appreciate in Heyer is how she doesn't shy away from showing how precarious women's positions were at that time, how vulnerable they were to predatory men. It's something you don't see in Austen, and you don't see in those wallpaper historicals these days either (except in cartoonish ways, which is the same as not at all imo)