Solved cryptogram
Your reproof, so well applied, I shall never forget: 'Had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.'
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 58.
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The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"We will not quarrel for the greater share of blame annexed to that evening," said Elizabeth. "The conduct of neither, if strictly examined, will be irreproachable; but since then we have both, I hope, improved in civility."
"I cannot be so easily reconciled to myself. The recollection of what I then said, of my conduct, my manners, my expressions during the whole of it, is now, and has been many months, inexpressibly painful to me. Your reproof, so well applied, I shall never forget: 'Had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.' Those were your words. You know not, you can scarcely conceive, how they have tortured me; though it was some time, I confess, before I was reasonable enough to allow their justice."
"I was certainly very far from expecting them to make so strong an impression. I had not the smallest idea of their being ever felt in such a way."
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: 80 letters over 21 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length80 letters, 21 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 57medium, 57 letters
- Chapter 58medium, 66 letters
- Chapter 58medium, 55 letters
- Chapter 58easy, 88 letters
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- Chapter 24easy, 73 letters
- Chapter 46easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 39easy, 77 letters
- Chapter 18easy, 97 letters
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