Solved cryptogram
In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend yourself?
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 34.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
Elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection, but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate her.
"But it is not merely this affair," she continued, "on which my dislike is founded. Long before it had taken place, my opinion of you was decided. Your character was unfolded in the recital which I received many months ago from Mr. Wickham. On this subject, what can you have to say? In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend yourself? or under what misrepresentation can you here impose upon others?"
"You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns," said Darcy, in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour.
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: 54 letters over 19 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length54 letters, 19 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 33hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 34hard, 56 letters
- Chapter 34hard, 67 letters
- Chapter 34easy, 87 letters
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- Chapter 29hard, 65 letters
- Chapter 55hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 16hard, 50 letters
- Chapter 41hard, 66 letters
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