Solved cryptogram
Mary petitioned for the use of the library at Netherfield; and Kitty begged very hard for a few balls there every winter.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 55.
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Wickham, Lydia, were all forgotten. Jane was beyond competition her favourite child. At that moment she cared for no other. Her younger sisters soon began to make interest with her for objects of happiness which she might in future be able to dispense.
Mary petitioned for the use of the library at Netherfield; and Kitty begged very hard for a few balls there every winter.
Bingley, from this time, was of course a daily visitor at Longbourn; coming frequently before breakfast, and always remaining till after supper; unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could not be enough detested, had given him an invitation to dinner, which he thought himself obliged to accept.
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: 98 letters over 21 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length98 letters, 21 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 55hard, 50 letters
- Chapter 55hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 55easy, 62 letters
- Chapter 56easy, 93 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 51easy, 78 letters
- Chapter 7easy, 84 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 53easy, 98 letters
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