Solved cryptogram
"I believe, ma'am, I may safely promise you never to dance with him."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 5.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"Another time, Lizzy," said her mother, "I would not dance with him, if I were you."
"I believe, ma'am, I may safely promise you never to dance with him."
"His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend me so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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This quotation is a cryptogram here: 51 letters over 20 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length51 letters, 20 of them different
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