Solved cryptogram
How could I ever be foolish enough to expect a renewal of his love?
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 54.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
Darcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee, and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!
"A man who has once been refused! How could I ever be foolish enough to expect a renewal of his love? Is there one among the sex who would not protest against such a weakness as a second proposal to the same woman? There is no indignity so abhorrent to their feelings."
She was a little revived, however, by his bringing back his coffee-cup himself; and she seized the opportunity of saying, -
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: 53 letters over 20 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length53 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 54hard, 88 letters
- Chapter 54easy, 57 letters
- Chapter 54easy, 90 letters
- Chapter 54easy, 89 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 42hard, 61 letters
- Chapter 34hard, 67 letters
- Chapter 5hard, 70 letters
- Chapter 56hard, 62 letters
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