Solved cryptogram
I do assure you that my intimacy has not yet taught me that. Tease calmness of temper and presence of mind!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 11.
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"Nothing so easy, if you have but the inclination," said Elizabeth. "We can all plague and punish one another. Tease him - laugh at him. Intimate as you are, you must know how it is to be done."
"But upon my honour I do not. I do assure you that my intimacy has not yet taught me that. Tease calmness of temper and presence of mind! No, no; I feel he may defy us there. And as to laughter, we will not expose ourselves, if you please, by attempting to laugh without a subject. Mr. Darcy may hug himself."
"Mr. Darcy is not to be laughed at!" cried Elizabeth. "That is an uncommon advantage, and uncommon I hope it will continue, for it would be a great loss to me to have many such acquaintance. I dearly love a laugh."
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 18 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length85 letters, 18 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 11medium, 87 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 64 letters
- Chapter 11easy, 82 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 53 letters
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