Solved cryptogram
The last born has as good a right to the pleasures of youth as the first. And to be kept back on such a motive!
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.
"All! What, all five out at once? Very odd! And you only the second. The younger ones out before the elder are married! Your younger sisters must be very young?"
"Yes, my youngest is not sixteen. Perhaps she is full young to be much in company. But really, ma'am, I think it would be very hard upon younger sisters that they should not have their share of society and amusement, because the elder may not have the means or inclination to marry early. The last born has as good a right to the pleasures of youth as the first. And to be kept back on such a motive! I think it would not be very likely to promote sisterly affection or delicacy of mind."
"Upon my word," said her Ladyship, "you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?"
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: 85 letters over 21 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length85 letters, 21 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 29medium, 68 letters
- Chapter 29medium, 64 letters
- Chapter 29hard, 65 letters
- Chapter 29hard, 65 letters
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- Chapter 44easy, 97 letters
- Chapter 52easy, 68 letters
- Chapter 25easy, 70 letters
- Chapter 3easy, 85 letters
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