Solved cryptogram
"No - I cannot talk of books in a ball-room; my head is always full of something else."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 18.
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 sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
"No - I cannot talk of books in a ball-room; my head is always full of something else."
"The present always occupies you in such scenes - does it?" said he, with a look of doubt.
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: 64 letters over 20 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length64 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 18medium, 58 letters
- Chapter 18easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 18easy, 97 letters
- Chapter 19easy, 72 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 19medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 37medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 50medium, 54 letters
- Chapter 34medium, 98 letters
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