Solved cryptogram
My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 11.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect. He owns it himself without disguise."
"No," said Darcy, "I have made no such pretension. I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding; certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost is lost for ever."
"That is a failing, indeed!" cried Elizabeth. "Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me."
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: 53 letters over 20 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length53 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 11easy, 85 letters
- Chapter 11easy, 82 letters
- Chapter 13hard, 89 letters
- Chapter 13medium, 71 letters
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- Chapter 34hard, 56 letters
- Chapter 1hard, 76 letters
- Chapter 25hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 5hard, 51 letters
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