Solved cryptogram
No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you can think anything wanting.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 31.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"My fingers," said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution."
Darcy smiled and said, "You are perfectly right. You have employed your time much better. No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you can think anything wanting. We neither of us perform to strangers."
Here they were interrupted by Lady Catherine, who called out to know what they were talking of. Elizabeth immediately began playing again. Lady Catherine approached, and, after listening for a few minutes, said to Darcy, -
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: 62 letters over 20 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length62 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 31hard, 81 letters
- Chapter 31medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 32hard, 79 letters
- Chapter 33hard, 57 letters
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- Chapter 25hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 58hard, 56 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 60 letters
- Chapter 55hard, 50 letters
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