Solved cryptogram
"Upon my word! Well, that was very decided, indeed - that does seem as if - but, however, it may all come to nothing, you know."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 5.
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"Perhaps you mean what I overheard between him and Mr. Robinson: did not I mention it to you? Mr. Robinson's asking him how he liked our Meryton assemblies, and whether he did not think there were a great many pretty women in the room, and which he thought the prettiest? and his answering immediately to the last question, 'Oh, the eldest Miss Bennet, beyond a doubt: there cannot be two opinions on that point.'"
"Upon my word! Well, that was very decided, indeed - that does seem as if - but, however, it may all come to nothing, you know."
"My overhearings were more to the purpose than yours, Eliza," said Charlotte. "Mr. Darcy is not so well worth listening to as his friend, is he? Poor Eliza! to be only just tolerable."
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: 92 letters over 22 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length92 letters, 22 of them different
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- Chapter 40medium, 87 letters
- Chapter 6medium, 63 letters
- Chapter 54medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 47medium, 89 letters
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