You bar his progress and ask him for the red pepper.

The haughty contempt with which he regards you is painful to bear.

It is as if you had insulted a lady.

He appears to be saying the same thing: "I think you have made a mistake.

You are possibly confusing me with somebody else; I have not the honour of your acquaintance." How to insult him.
I do not wish it to be understood that I am in the habit of insulting ladies, but occasionally I have made an innocent mistake, and have met with some such response.