Solved cryptogram
I should have considered it as part of my duty, and the exertion would soon have been nothing.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 52.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"How should you have liked making sermons?"
"Exceedingly well. I should have considered it as part of my duty, and the exertion would soon have been nothing. One ought not to repine; but, to be sure, it would have been such a thing for me! The quiet, the retirement of such a life, would have answered all my ideas of happiness! But it was not to be. Did you ever hear Darcy mention the circumstance when you were in Kent?"
"I have heard from authority, which I thought as good, that it was left you conditionally only, and at the will of the present patron."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
Solve it yourself
This quotation is a cryptogram here: 75 letters over 22 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length75 letters, 22 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 52hard, 64 letters
- Chapter 52easy, 68 letters
- Chapter 53easy, 80 letters
- Chapter 53easy, 62 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 43hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 23hard, 63 letters
- Chapter 49hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 47hard, 51 letters
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