Solved cryptogram
"Some time or other he will be - but it shall not be by me. Till I can forget his father, I can never defy or expose him."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 16.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"This is quite shocking! He deserves to be publicly disgraced."
"Some time or other he will be - but it shall not be by me. Till I can forget his father, I can never defy or expose him."
Elizabeth honoured him for such feelings, and thought him handsomer than ever as he expressed them.
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: 89 letters over 22 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length89 letters, 22 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 16medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 16hard, 50 letters
- Chapter 17medium, 55 letters
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Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 48easy, 67 letters
- Chapter 56easy, 71 letters
- Chapter 59easy, 80 letters
- Chapter 27easy, 83 letters
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