Solved cryptogram
"I never heard anything so abominable. How shall we punish him for such a speech?"
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 have not the smallest objection to explaining them," said he, as soon as she allowed him to speak. "You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking: if the first, I should be completely in your way; and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire."
"Oh, shocking!" cried Miss Bingley. "I never heard anything so abominable. How shall we punish him for such a speech?"
"Nothing so easy, if you have but the inclination," said Elizabeth. "We can all plague and punish one another. Tease him - laugh at him. Intimate as you are, you must know how it is to be done."
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 21 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length64 letters, 21 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 11easy, 92 letters
- Chapter 11medium, 87 letters
- Chapter 11easy, 85 letters
- Chapter 11easy, 82 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 59hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 47hard, 72 letters
- Chapter 56hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 41hard, 61 letters
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