Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 51

The fourth of eight cryptograms from chapter 51 of Pride and Prejudice. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.

Vuuzvanhtuxg!bjfoTbfoynbnl,TnkgxafTjnzoukuaftzfnupmftovknaatfzytrrThnkfmnhdnvnto!

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Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 51 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.

There was no want of discourse. The bride and her mother could neither of them talk fast enough; and Wickham, who happened to sit near Elizabeth, began inquiring after his acquaintance in that neighbourhood, with a good-humoured ease, which she felt very unable to equal in her replies. They seemed each of them to have the happiest memories in the world. Nothing of the past was recollected with pain; and Lydia led voluntarily to subjects which her sisters would not have alluded to for the world.

The sentence you are solving goes here.

Her father lifted up his eyes, Jane was distressed, Elizabeth looked expressively at Lydia; but she, who never heard nor saw anything of which she chose to be insensible, gaily continued, -

Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.

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