Solved cryptogram
"I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through, I am afraid, is pitiful."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 9.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"Oh yes - I understand you perfectly."
"I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through, I am afraid, is pitiful."
"That is as it happens. It does not necessarily follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours."
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: 77 letters over 21 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length77 letters, 21 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 35medium, 88 letters
- Chapter 59medium, 64 letters
- Chapter 31medium, 96 letters
- Chapter 46medium, 53 letters
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