Solved cryptogram
Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. What could be more natural than his asking you again?
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 4.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"I was very much flattered by his asking me to dance a second time. I did not expect such a compliment."
"Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. What could be more natural than his asking you again? He could not help seeing that you were about five times as pretty as every other woman in the room. No thanks to his gallantry for that. Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person."
"Dear Lizzy!"
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: 87 letters over 21 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length87 letters, 21 of them different
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- Chapter 54medium, 60 letters
- Chapter 51medium, 86 letters
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