Solved cryptogram
I who knew what he was. Had I but explained some part of it only - some part of what I learnt, to my own family!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 46.
The passage it comes from
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Darcy was fixed in astonishment.
"When I consider," she added, in a yet more agitated voice, "that I might have prevented it! I who knew what he was. Had I but explained some part of it only - some part of what I learnt, to my own family! Had his character been known, this could not have happened. But it is all, all too late now."
"I am grieved, indeed," cried Darcy: "grieved - shocked. But is it certain, absolutely certain?"
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: 83 letters over 20 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length83 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 46hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 46medium, 75 letters
- Chapter 46medium, 53 letters
- Chapter 46easy, 85 letters
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- Chapter 24easy, 73 letters
- Chapter 39easy, 77 letters
- Chapter 58easy, 80 letters
- Chapter 18easy, 97 letters
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