Solved cryptogram
"You cannot be more than twenty, I am sure, - therefore you need not conceal your age."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 29.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.
"You cannot be more than twenty, I am sure, - therefore you need not conceal your age."
"I am not one-and-twenty."
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: 65 letters over 19 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length65 letters, 19 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 29medium, 64 letters
- Chapter 29easy, 85 letters
- Chapter 29hard, 65 letters
- Chapter 30medium, 76 letters
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- Chapter 34hard, 54 letters
- Chapter 16hard, 50 letters
- Chapter 41hard, 66 letters
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